Crimes against Humanity.

Felicity Arbuthnot.

...On 1st January 1996, Ramsey Clark, twice US Attorney General, wrote to all Members of the UN Security Council : 'There is one crime against humanity in this last decade of the millenium, that exceeds all others in magnitude, cruelty and portent. It is the US-forced sanctions against the twenty million people of Iraq.' A detailed, shaming depiction of Iraqis plight, concludes: ' You must vote against these genocidal sanctions.Your nations should not share responsibility for the deaths of more than ten thousand Iraqis who will die before the Security Council Review in March, if sanctions are not lifted in January.' * The shameful world body, avowed the protect 'succeeding generations', voted to maintain sanctions. The previous year, the head of the Red Cross told Clark that in one week, there had been six thousand infant deaths from diahorrea and vomiting due to contaminated water. Rehydration and anti-biotics costing just cents a dose, would have saved most.They were blocked under US-UK pressure. ' The enjoyment of the highest standard of health is .. the fundamental right of every human being ..' states the constitution of the (UN) World Health Organisation. From wars on babies to wars on the devastated : the inevitable, illegal invasion of Iraq. Harvard Medical School's meticulous Professor Les Roberts, estimates a possible further six hundred and fifty five thousand excess deaths in Iraq - or more - due to rape, torture, destruction on a barely believeable scale...

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