Iraq: Helping BBC's memory...
Dear John Simpson, BBC World Affairs Editor
In “Iraq invasion: For better or worse?” (BBC News website, Monday, 20 March 2006), you write:
In 1991, there were between 142,000 and 206,000 Iraqi deaths directly attributable to the Gulf War. (Source: U.N. 1991 the Ahtisaari report; Daponte 1993)
How many deaths as a result of the sanctions? Denis Halliday, former UN Assistant Secretary General and Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq (1997-98) who resigned after thirty-four years with the United Nations, in protest over the effects of the embargo on the civilian population, said: “I had been instructed to implement a policy that satisfies the definition of genocide: a deliberate policy that had effectively killed well over a million individuals, children and adults.” (The New Rulers of the World, by John Pilger, Verso, 2002)
According to Les Roberts (Center for International Emergency Disaster and Refugee Studies at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, one of the world’s top epidemiologists and lead author of the Lancet report) there might be as many as 300,000 Iraqi civilian deaths (Do Iraqi Civilian Casualties Matter?, By Les Roberts, AlterNet, February 8, 2006)
Since Hiroshima Day 1990, for the past fifteen years and with the complicity and silence of most of the so-called “international community” (and many Western intellectuals and journalists), Washington and London have waged a war against the people of Iraq that has slaughtered over 2,000,000 people. Most of them women and children.
Proportionally to its population, it’s as if a war against the United States had killed 23 million of innocent Americans.
“Iraq invasion: For better or worse?” Freedom! Freedom! Democracy! Democracy!
Oh yes, the photo used for your article portrays a PR show organized by the US army. Please congratulate with the person who chose it. The right choice for your article!
Kind regards,
Gabriele Zamparini
In “Iraq invasion: For better or worse?” (BBC News website, Monday, 20 March 2006), you write:
“The first thing that struck me about Baghdad when I saw it in April 2003, a few days after the fall of Saddam Hussein, was how poor it had become. I hadn't been allowed back there since 1991, after the first Gulf War.”From your article it seems you have missed something since 1991. Please, let me help your memory.
In 1991, there were between 142,000 and 206,000 Iraqi deaths directly attributable to the Gulf War. (Source: U.N. 1991 the Ahtisaari report; Daponte 1993)
How many deaths as a result of the sanctions? Denis Halliday, former UN Assistant Secretary General and Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq (1997-98) who resigned after thirty-four years with the United Nations, in protest over the effects of the embargo on the civilian population, said: “I had been instructed to implement a policy that satisfies the definition of genocide: a deliberate policy that had effectively killed well over a million individuals, children and adults.” (The New Rulers of the World, by John Pilger, Verso, 2002)
According to Les Roberts (Center for International Emergency Disaster and Refugee Studies at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, one of the world’s top epidemiologists and lead author of the Lancet report) there might be as many as 300,000 Iraqi civilian deaths (Do Iraqi Civilian Casualties Matter?, By Les Roberts, AlterNet, February 8, 2006)
Since Hiroshima Day 1990, for the past fifteen years and with the complicity and silence of most of the so-called “international community” (and many Western intellectuals and journalists), Washington and London have waged a war against the people of Iraq that has slaughtered over 2,000,000 people. Most of them women and children.
Proportionally to its population, it’s as if a war against the United States had killed 23 million of innocent Americans.
“Iraq invasion: For better or worse?” Freedom! Freedom! Democracy! Democracy!
Oh yes, the photo used for your article portrays a PR show organized by the US army. Please congratulate with the person who chose it. The right choice for your article!
Kind regards,
Gabriele Zamparini
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