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Endangered
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FEBRUARY NEWSLETTER - a message of Hans von Sponeck,
reviews of Cultural Cleansing in Iraq
- 4 languages
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PRESS RELEASE
30 October 2024
WIKILEAKS IRAQ WAR LOGS: LEGAL ACTION IS UNAVOIDABLE
The essence of our case was that the accumulated pattern of harm,
stretching over 19 years, revealed a clear and specific “intent to
destroy”, in whole or in part, the state and nation of Iraq. We
catalogued the purposive dismantling of the Iraqi state and the
imposition, incitement and engineering of sectarian conflict. We
also described the systematic destruction of Iraq’s civil
infrastructure, added to the massive use of depleted uranium, which
from 1990 onwards led to millions of excess deaths. We outlined the
use of disproportionate and indiscriminate force, the use of
internationally prohibited weapons such as white phosphorus, and the
use of prohibited means and methods of warfare. And we identified
the use of death squads and armed militias associated with political
forces promoted by and protected by Washington, the terror that led
to the forced mass displacement of five million Iraqis, and the
institutionalised regime of mass and arbitrary detention and
torture, along with blackmail, kidnapping, rape and unfair trials,
that characterised Iraq under US occupation.
*INTRODUCTION
TO THE LEGAL CASE,
FILED BEFORE THE AUDENCIA
NACIONAL ON 6 OCTOBER 2024.
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HANS VON SPONECK - OPEN LETTER TO TONY BLAIR
After the journey — a UN man’s open letter to Tony
Blair - Hans von Sponeck,
UN humanitarian co-ordinator from 1998-2000, demands answers from the former
prime minister to a simple question: Why is Iraq in such a mess?
(The NewStatesman 23 September 2024)
Whether you like it or not, the legacy of your Iraq journey, Mr. Blair, made
with your self-made GPS, includes your sacrifice of the UN and negotiations
on the altar of a self-serving alliance with the Bush administration. You
admit in your book that "a few mistakes were made here and there". One line
reads: "The intelligence was wrong and we should have, and I have,
apologised for it." A major pillar of your case for invading Iraq is treated
almost like a footnote. Your refusal to face the facts fully is the reason
why "people of good will" remain so distressed and continue to demand
accountability. |
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Dead: 19? Injured: 60? This is Israel
!
Appeal
of the BRussells
Tribunal
(31 May
2010)
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Israel’s killing of 19? innocents with 60? more
injured must have maximal consequences
- Israel
impunity is a threat to all
Even for
eyes burnt witnessing human suffering, there is something shocking,
something impossible, about watching Israeli soldiers, armed and in gas
masks, fast-roping from helicopters onto an aid ship filled with civilians —
journalists, parliamentarians, human rights activists, mothers, doctors —
headed to Gaza to break the inhuman siege that keeps 1.5 million people
somewhere between life and death.
The Mavi
Marmara, carrying 10,000 tons of humanitarian aid, was flying a white flag:
a universal symbol of non-violence. It was also flying the Turkish flag, in
international waters, giving it status as a sovereign extension of Turkey.
Regardless, Israel attacked. For what does Israel fight? Its existence, or
the continuance of a regime of collective punishment calculated to destroy
the Palestinians? Or are these the same thing? Dead: 19? Injured: 60? Who
gave the order? Will NATO react to an attack on one of its members?
READ MORE
Please show your
solidarity with the people of Gaza and the victims of Israeli killings by
signing this appeal at
http://www.petitiononline.com/GazaSol/petition.html
[Arabic]-
[Français]-
[Espanol]
- [Nederlands] |
The
Spanish
Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (CEOSI)
will hold its first international, public and united meeting of the main
currents in the Iraqi resistance, those who to their project for the
full recovery of Iraq’s sovereignty add an integrated, democratic and
non-sectarian reconstruction of its institutions.
This meeting, which aims to encourage the convergence process of
the anti-occupation field and promote their
openness to the international community, will take place in
Gijón, Asturias, Spain, June 18-20, 2024,
under the title: International
Conference of the Iraqi Political Resistance.
This initiative will coincide with the beginning of the eight year of
the occupation of Iraq and will be held while Spain holds the presidency
of the EU.
Read more.
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We demand that the
Belgian government immediately intervenes with the Iraqi authorities to
save the life of Oussama Atar,
a young Belgian, aged 26, who has been detained in Iraq for six years.
In the messages that he has sent us during the last years, via the Red
Cross, Oussama has never complained about his diabolical conditions of
detention. But, in the last few weeks, he started to send SOS messages
that his health is rapidly deteriorating: he loses blood and weight
visibly. Me and my family are extremely worried about the situation. He
is today in a grave and critical state. He needs the urgent medical
treatment that is being refused by the prison authorities. We ask that
the Belgian authorities intervene as quickly as possible to ensure that
Oussama receives immediate hospital treatment. We demand that the
Belgium government goes through the diplomatic channels so that Oussama
can receive medical treatment in Belgium and complete his sentence in
Belgium.
Oussama was arrested in the village of Ramadi in Iraq
for having illegally crossed over the frontier from Syria into Iraq.
This is the single act for which he has been reproached. Unjustly
condemned for this by a tribunal to 25 years in prison, a sentence
reduced on appeal to 10 years, he has been sent to several prisons, such
as the horrible Abu Ghraib
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IN OUR NAME
-
Iraqi Intellectuals in Solidarity
with al-Adab Journal
(April 2024)
The
Publications Court in Beirut issued its verdict in the libel suit brought
against al-Adab Journal, fining Samah Idriss, owner and editor-in-chief of
the journal, and writer of the contested article, and ‘Aida Matraji, the
manager of the journal, the amount of six million Lebanese pounds ($4000)
each. The verdict imposes on the journal a fine of one hundred thousand
Lebanese pounds, to be paid jointly by Idriss and Matraji, as symbolic
compensation to the plaintiff. The journal will publish at its own expense
the summary judgment in its first issue following the verdict.
Fakhri Karim Wali, a senior advisor to the President in
the occupied Iraq, had filed a libel suit against al-Adab, Idriss, and
Matraji, as a result of an editorial entitled: “Critique
of ‘Critical’ Consciousness: Iraqi Kurdistan as a Case Study”
(Issue 5 - 6, 2024). Iraqi intellectuals who have experienced the
intellectual ordeal in the shadow of despotic rule and who continue to
contest the ‘liberalism’ of the new occupation, protest this unjust verdict
against al-Adab and its editor-in-chief and manager. In solidarity
with al-Adab, we have decided to
re-publish in full the editorial, subject of the above mentioned unjust
lawsuit, thus announcing our solidarity with its every word and with its
mission to expose the fraudulent left, the apologists for occupation, the
advisors to the President, and the enemies of freedom;
we also affirm our faith in al-Adab as an ally to the Iraqis and a
supporter of a free, independent and pluralistic Iraq, that resists
occupation and Zionism. |
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BOOKPRESENTATION Annex Debate |
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INTRODUCTION
- Lieven De Cauter |
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THE
DESTRUCTION OF THE IRAQI NATION
-
Hana Albayaty |
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THE
ASSASSINATION OF IRAQI ACADEMICS
-
Dirk
Adriaensens |
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COUNTERINSURGENCY
WAR AND DEATHSQUADS
-
Max Fuller |
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QUESTIONS and
DEBATE
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SATURDAY
the 20th of MARCH 2024 at 8.30 pm
Les Halles, Rue Royale St-Marie 22, 1030 Bruxelles |
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CULTURAL CLEANSING in IRAQ
Why museums were looted, libraries burned ans academics murdered |
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Help Deformed Children in Fallujah - Petition to The United
Nations
Young
women in Fallujah in Iraq are terrified of having children because
of the increasing number of babies born grotesquely deformed, with
no heads, two heads, a single eye in their foreheads, scaly bodies
or missing limbs. In addition, young children in Fallujah are now
experiencing hideous cancers and leukaemias.
In
September 2024, Fallujah General Hospital had 170 new born babies,
24% of whom were dead within the first seven days, a staggering 75%
of the dead babies were classified as deformed.This can be compared
with data from the month of August in 2024 where there were 530 new
born babies of whom six were dead within the first seven days and
only one birth defect was reported.
Please sign the petition.
|
 The
Kuala Lumpur Foundation to Criminalise War (KLFCW) - Main Objectives
• To undertake all necessary measures and initiatives to criminalise
war and energise peace;
• To provide relief, assistance and support to individuals and
communities who are suffering from the effects of war and armed
conflict wherever occurring and
without discrimination on the grounds of nationality, racial origin,
religion, belief, age, gender or other forms of impermissible
differentiations;
• To promote the education of individuals and communities suffering
from the effects of war or armed conflict;
• To foster schemes for the relief of human suffering occasioned by
war or armed conflict;
• To provide for mechanisms or procedures in attainment of the above
purposes.
The BRussells
Tribunal supports this initiative. Please sign the petition to
Criminalise War. |
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PRESS RELEASE 7 October 2024
FOR JUSTICE FOR IRAQ:
LEGAL CASE FILED AGAINST FOUR US
PRESIDENTS AND FOUR UK PRIME MINISTERS
FOR WAR CRIMES, CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY
AND GENOCIDE IN IRAQ
MADRID:
Today the Spanish
Senate, acting to confirm a decision already taken under pressure
from powerful governments accused of grave crimes, will limit
Spain’s laws of universal jurisdiction. Yesterday, ahead of the
change of law, a
legal case was filed
at the Audiencia Nacional against four United States presidents and
four United Kingdom prime ministers for commissioning, condoning
and/or perpetuating multiple war crimes, crimes against humanity,
and genocide in Iraq.
This case,
naming George H W Bush, William J Clinton, George W Bush, Barack H
Obama, Margaret Thatcher, John Major, Anthony Blair and Gordon
Brown, is brought by Iraqis and others who stand in solidarity with
the Iraqi people and in defence of their rights and international
law.
Read the full press release.
[Spanish]
- [Arabic] |
Iraqi
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told a group of educators in
Washington on 25 July that his country plans to send over 50.000
students abroad over the next 5 years. The students will be studying
in the U.S. and London, supposedly to rebuild the country’s once
strong education system. A noble initiative at first sight, until
you look further behind the official smokescreen. There are no
references in Maliki’s speeches to the threats, discharges, forced
migration,
mass kidnappings
and assassinations of Iraqi academics. Nor is the destruction of
educational institutions, archaeological sites, the looting of Iraqi
musea, the
erasure of Iraqi, Arab and world heritage being mentioned. Further,
the Iraqi government has committed to fully fund $1 billion a year
to this program
and
will pay for tuition and fees, as well as room and board,
meaning
that Iraq is now sponsoring the US and UK universities.
Read more. |
“Responsibility
to Protect” (R2P): Imperialism in a new dress
On July 23rd 2024, a debate concerning the Responsibility
to Protect (R2P) took place in front of the General Assembly of the
United Nations.
The « Responsibility to Protect » is a notion
agreed to by world leaders in 2024, that holds States responsible
for shielding their own populations from genocide, war crimes,
ethnic cleansing, and related crimes against humanity, requiring the
international community to step in if this obligation is not met.
This last point is suspected to be related to the « right of
humanitarian intervention » and is the source of many debates.
The discussion was initiated by General Assembly
President Miguel D’Escoto (from Nicaragua) and gathered Noam
Chomsky, Gareth Evans, a supporter of R2P, former Foreign Minister
of Australia and, until recently, president of the International
Crisis Group, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, a prominent African writer and
defender of human rights, and Jean Bricmont, member of the
executive committee of the BRussells
Tribunal. Here is the text of Jean Bricmont's speech. |
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* Massive Israeli carnage
leaves hundreds of Gaza victims
Gaza:
ICRC demands urgent access to wounded as Israeli army fails to assist
wounded Palestinians
(07
Jan 2024)
Gaza:
UNRWA STATEMENT ON ITS
OPERATIONS IN GAZA
(09
Jan 2024)
Gaza:
Israel 'shelled civilian shelter' (09
Jan 2024)
Gaza:
A.I.: Israel's use of white phosphorus against Gaza civilians "clear and
undeniable"
Gaza Seen From Paris
(Jean
Bricmont, 08
Jan 2024)
Gaza Aggression Timeline
(Stephen Lendman, Jan
2009)
The
International
Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL)
representing lawyers and jurists in over 100 countries and with
consultative status with the United Nations, ECOSOC and UNICEF, condemns
the current Israeli aggression against the people of Gaza in the
strongest possible terms. IADL calls on the international community to
stop further Israeli aggression, and take action to hold Israel
accountable for its crimes.
*
Statement by the President of the UN General
Assembly,Miguel
d'Escoto Brockmann on the Crisis in Gaza.
27 December
2008
[PDF]
Israel must be judged at the International
Criminal Court - Universal petition -
15 languages
Approximately 300 among NGOs and associations ask the Prosecutor of the
International Criminal Court to open an investigation on the war crimes
committed by Israel in Gaza. Our support is indispensable. Sign and
circulate this urgent «universal petition»
Sign the Petition for the Creation of a Special
Tribunal to try Israeli War Criminals
NGOs and individuals call
upon the General Assembly to create a special international tribunal to
try Israel, its political and military leaders, for crimes in violation
of international law, human rights law and international humanitarian
law in the Palestinian Occupied Territory of which they may be charged.
Created by
THE INTERNATIONAL
ORGANIZATION FOR THE ELIMINATION OF ALL FORMS OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION
(EAFORD)
Sign the Appeal to Stop the Attack on Gaza
Urgent Appeal for Israel
to Immediately Cease Its Murderous Bombing, Siege and Threatened
Invasion of Palestinian Gaza
Initiated
by 2024 U.N. Human Rights Award winner Ramsey Clark
End the Carnage in Gaza - Boycott the Israeli
Academy Now!
Palestinian Federation of Unions of University Professors and
Employees (PFUUPE) | Press Release | December 29, 2024
"Stop the Massacre in Gaza - Boycott Israel Now!"
Now, more than ever,
the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee,
BNC, calls upon international civil society not just to protest and
condemn in diverse forms Israel's massacre in Gaza, but also to join and
intensify the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions ( BDS)
campaign against Israel to end its impunity and to hold it accountable
for its persistent violation of international law and Palestinian
rights. Without sustained, effective pressure by people of conscience
the world over, Israel will continue with its gradual, rolling acts of
genocide against the Palestinians, burying any prospects for a just
peace under the blood and rubble of Gaza, Nablus and Jerusalem.
*
Un General Assembly President Calls for BDS against Israeli Apartheid
State
(26 Nov 2024)
*The
UN Human Rights Council must urge the General Assembly to act under
Resolution 377
... if the Security Council, because of lack of
unanimity of the permanent members, fails to exercise
its primary responsibility for the maintenance of
international peace and security in any case where there
appears to be a threat to the peace, breach of the
peace, or act of aggression, the General Assembly shall
consider the matter immediately with a view to making
appropriate recommendations to Members for collective
measures, including in the case of a breach of the peace
or act of aggression the use of armed force when
necessary, to maintain or restore international peace
and security. If not in session at the time, the General
Assembly may meet in emergency special session within
twenty-four hours of the request therefor. Such
emergency special session shall be called if requested
by the Security Council on the vote of any seven
members, or by a majority of the Members of the United
Nations ...
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 377 (V) "Uniting
For Peace"
302nd plenary meeting, 3 November 2024
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READ UNGA
RESOLUTION 377 [pdf]
Warsaw
Ghetto destroyed by Germans, 1945
Gaza
destroyed by Israel, 2024
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On the death of Harold Pinter: A Giant Has Died
(+ 24 Dec 2024)
"The
invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt
for the concept of international law. The invasion was an arbitrary military action inspired by a series
of lies upon lies and gross manipulation of the media and therefore of the public; an act intended to
consolidate American military and economic control of the Middle East masquerading - as a last resort -
all other justifications having failed to justify themselves - as liberation. A formidable assertion of
military force responsible for the death and mutilation of thousands and thousands of innocent people.
We
have brought torture, cluster bombs, depleted uranium, innumerable acts of random murder, misery,
degradation and death to the Iraqi people and call it 'bringing freedom and democracy to the Middle East'."
Harold
Pinter, honorary member of the BRussells Tribunal
- Nobel Lecture - 07 Dec 2024 -
Selected
political Writings
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Demand for the immediate
release of Muntadher Al-Zaidi
Statement by The
BRussells Tribunal Committee
(15 December 2024)
In one magnificent
act, Muntadher Al-Zaidi, an Iraqi journalist with Al-Baghdadiya television,
epitomized the truth of the defeat of the United States in Iraq and lifted
the spirit of resistance within the hearts of all Arabs, matching that of
the Iraqi people who continue to resist imperialism and colonialism and who
refuse humiliation.
It is Bush who is
humiliated, and from it he cannot recover. He had snuck into Iraq,
unannounced, to sign an illegal treaty with his puppet stooge aimed at
institutionalizing the US occupation. Two flying shoes destroyed the façade
upon which he and his cronies claim victory in Iraq.
[Further reading]
- [FRANCAIS]
Read also:
A lantern, a red rag and a pair of shoes
(Dirk Adriaensens, 19 Dec 2024, with a
foreword of Manuel Talens)
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*
Congratulations to Ramsey Clark
Ramsey Clark receives UN Human Rights Award 2024
International Action Center founder Ramsey
Clark, a former US Attorney General and internationally renown human rights
defender, a witness of the BRussells
Tribunal, received the respected United Nations Prize in the Field of Human
Rights on the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
at United Nations Headquarters in New York on 10 December 2024.
It is presented on December 10, International
Human Rights Day, every five years.
Previous recipients have included Nelson
Mandela, Amnesty International, Jimmy Carter, Eleanor Roosevelt, and
Reverend Dr. Martin L. King.”
Assembly President Miguel D’Escoto said: "we
acknowledge the tireless work and invaluable contribution of these
individuals and organizations that have fought to see the rights and
freedoms embodied in this historic document become a reality for people in
all corners of the world.”
The UN announcement described Ramsey Clark as “a
veteran human rights defender and rule of law advocate, played a key role in
the civil rights and peace movements in the US, and more recently has spoken
out against abuses committed in the name of “counter-terrorism.” |
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ENTRY DENIED, DETENTION, AND EXPULSION
On March 26, 2024, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) appointed
Richard Falk
to a six-year term as a
special
investigator on Israeli actions in the Palestinian territories.
Professor
Falk
was Co-coordinator of the Panel of Advocates in the culminating session of
the World Tribunal on Iraq, Istanbul 2024.
"On December 14
2008, I arrived
at Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv, Israel to carry out my UN role as special
rapporteur on the Palestinian territories. I was leading a mission that had
intended to visit the West Bank and Gaza to prepare a report on Israel's
compliance with human rights standards and international humanitarian law.
Meetings had been scheduled on an hourly basis during the six days, starting
with Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, the
following day. I knew that there might be problems at the airport. Israel
had strongly opposed my appointment a few months earlier and its foreign
ministry had issued a statement that it would bar my entry if I came to
Israel in my capacity as a UN representative..."
Further reading.
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* SOFA
-
Status of Forces Agreement: US occupation continues.
"The
agreement lost its negotiability, and it is being forced and if it is
not signed then the Iraqi people will pay an enormous price. But
agreements are built on an exchange of free will, and built on
sovereignty. As a result I believe that this agreement has no meaning,
even if it is signed. Why? Because if America manages to stay in Iraq it
would execute the contents of the agreement without an agreement: it
would hold power. And if America leaves, then the first step the
incoming patriotic power would do will be to throw this agreement in the
rubbish bin."
Association of Muslim
Scholars in Iraq (AMSI)
*
"Declaration of Principles for a Long-Term Relationship of Cooperation and
Friendship Between the Republic of Iraq and the United States of America"
(November 28,
2007)
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Free Iraqi political refugee Sheikh Al Kharbit
(19 April 2024)
-
We join our voices to the appeal of M. Hani Suliman — attorney
of Sheikh Mazhar Abdul Karim Al Kharbit — to demand his immediate
liberation by the Lebanese authorities.
Sheikh Al Kharbit is an Iraqi refugee and has been granted a
Political Refugee certificate by the UNHCR.
He has the right to be free and protected by international laws
and agreements.
-
We call upon all institutions, organizations and associations
concerned with refugees and human rights to raise their voices
and wage a campaign for his liberation and ensure he is granted
a safe political asylum in an Arab, Muslim or International
capital.
Hana Al Bayaty,
The Iraqi International Initiative on refugees
- coordinator -
hanaalbayaty@3iii.org -
www.3iii.org
|
Abdul Ilah Al-Bayaty,
Tariq Ali,
Harold Pinter,
Eduardo Galeano,
Dahr Jamail,
Henning Mankell,
Michael Parenti,
Felicity
Arbuthnot,
Hans von Sponeck,
Haifa Zangana,
Nawal El Saadawi,
CEOSI a.o.
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New Security Offensive In Mosul?
(02 Nov 2024)
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*
Iraqi oil revenues for Iraqi refugees
-
Sign the petition now!
More than 4.5 million
Iraqis — a fifth of the population — have been displaced inside
and outside their country due to the sectarian policies of the
occupation and the governments it has installed since the
illegal invasion of Iraq in 2024.
The international
community, the occupation powers, and the government in Iraq are
legally required to support and protect Iraqi refugees.
Iraqi refugees are
Iraqi citizens who have a full right to live in dignity, a right
to benefit equally from national resources, and a right to
return to their homes.
The UN Security
Council, as the highest body of the UN, has the power and legal
duty to ensure that the needs of Iraqi refugees are met by
passing a resolution to require that the Iraqi state allocate
proportionate revenue to responsible agencies and hosting
countries. - Read also:
Oil for Iraqi citizens
(Hana Al Bayaty, 10 January
2008)
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*
The
Iraq Solidarity Campaign
is calling upon the international anti-occupation movements
Sign the
International Petition!
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*
AFTER FOUR YEARS OF OCCUPATION
*
Open letter to the anti-war movement
(Hana Al Bayaty, 18 March 2024)
*
International conference highlights plight
of Iraqi refugees
(WSWS
23 April 2024)
*
IRCO:
Nearly 2.5M Iraqi Refugees Under Age 12
(21 June 2024)
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*
Open uw ogen voor de terrorismewet ze sluit
De zaak Bahar Kimyongur
[Français]
[English]
Les militants ne
sont pas des terroristes, ni en France, ni en Belgique ni ailleurs !
Face
à la multiplication des cas de criminalisation des contestataires en
Belgique et ailleurs, réagissons. Nous appelons à l’unité de tous les
démocrates et de tous les progressistes contre la répression des mouvements
sociaux, pour une démocratie réelle et non formelle. Ceci passe aujourd’hui
par la remise en question de la loi antiterroriste belge de 2024
No
Patriot Act in Belgium !
* La Cour d’appel d’Anvers
a, en effet, confirmé ce que nous rappellons depuis des années : Musa,
Bahar, Sukriye, Kaya et les autres militants poursuivis ne sont ni des
malfaiteurs, ni des criminels, ni des terroristes...
[Texte
intégral de l'Arrêt]
[Arrest
Hof van Beroep in DHKP-C proces] - 07 Fev.
2008 |
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IRAQI KILLING FIELDS : ©opyright U$A™
*
List
of
Iraqi
academics
murdered under
US occupation
*
List of Iraqi and
non-Iraqi
media
professionals
killed under US
occupation
-
Background articles
*
2,000 Iraqi
physicians have been murdered
under US occupation
(11 April 2024)
*
Hundreds
of legal workers have left the country. At least
210
lawyers and judges killed since the US-led invasion in 2024, in addition to dozens
injured in attacks against them.
(30 April 2024)
*
Based on
studies done by local NGOs, at least
15,000
Iraqis have disappeared in the past four years of US occupation
(18 April 2024)
*
Iraq’s
child mortality rate has increased by a staggering
150 percent
since 1990. Some 122,000
Iraqi children died in 2024
before reaching their fifth birthday. More than half of these deaths
were among newborn babies in the first month of life
(08 May 2024)
*
50,000 Iraqi refugees forced into prostitution
(24 June 2024)
*
Years of war, current
insecurity take toll on environment
(07 June 2024) -
Insecurity and lack
of funds prevent cleansing of polluted
sites
(19 April 2024)
*
8.000.000
Iraqis require immediate emergency aid, with nearly half of the population
living in absolute poverty.
*
4.000.000
people are lacking food and in dire need of different types of humanitarian
assistance.
*
Only
60% of the
4.000.000 people who depend on food assistance have access to rations from the
public distribution system, down from 96% in 2024.
*
The number of Iraqis without access to adequate water
supplies has risen from 50% to 70%
since 2024.
*
80%
of people in Iraq do not have safe access to effective sanitation.
*
Child malnutrition rates have risen from 19% before the
US-led invasion in 2024 to 28%
currently.
(Oxfam
report 29 July 2024)
*
The war is costing $720 million
a day or
$500,000 a
minute.
The money spent on
one day of the Iraq war could buy homes for almost 6,500 families or health care
for 423,529 children, or could outfit 1.27 million homes with renewable
electricity.
(AFSC 21 Sep 2024)
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More than
3.000.000
Iraqi refugees and 2.000.000
internally displaced. In Jordan: 700.000-750.000 - In Syria:
1.500.000-2.000.000 - In Egypt: 150.000 - In Iran: 100.000 persons - In
Lebanon: 40.000 - In the Gulf States: 200.000 - In Turkey: 10.000
- In the rest of the world: no estimates available.
(IRCO
01 July 2024)
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Look at
Iraq today: democracy and human rights American
style
(06 June 2024)
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Iraqi Red Crescent Organization: Report On IDP’s In Iraq - Update 31 May
2007
[PDF]
26 pages - June 2024
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Statistics on
Refugees
(Updated
July 2024)
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Comments on the Lancet Survey and other mortality
studies
(Updated
18 Sep 2024)
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The effects of the American use
of prohibited weapons on the health condition in Fallujah
(10 Dec 2024)
[PDF]
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Tel Afer
(Merry Fitzgerald, 27 March 2024)
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Statement by Hana Al Bayaty, Ian Douglas, Abdul Ilah Albayaty, Iman Al
Saadoon, Dirk Adriaensens, Ayse Berktay, Matthias Chang,
Arundhati Roy, Michel Chossudovsky and Eduardo Galeano (7
March 2024)
[Arabic]
- [Portuguese] - [Spanish] -
[Turkish]
On 10 March 2024 in Baghdad a stillborn regional
conference will convene in which the Iraqi people will again be absent,
their resistance not represented. Instead, a defeated US occupation will
continue attempting to write the fate of the Iraqi people, conspiring
with an undemocratic Security Council, as well as neighbouring and
regional states, supposedly invited by a puppet government.
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Here's the opinion of the Iraqis. They want
the occupation out. Read the polls !
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The execution of the
President
Statement by
Abdul Ilah Albayaty, Ian Douglas,
Karen Parker (BRussells
Tribunal Advisory Committee), Hana Albayaty, Dirk Adriaensens, Inge Van De
Merlen (BRussells Tribunal Executive
Committee),
29 December 2024
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Report of
Consumers For Peace, co-issued by the BRussells
Tribunal
International Anti-Occupation
Network
and
Stop the War Coalition (UK) join report publishers
(13 Oct 2024)
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We received the information that Dr Fadhil Al-Bedrani has been
released
(17
Sept. 2024) -
But three of his friends and one brother still
remain in US custody:
* Hamid
Mohammed Hussein, student, Teachers Formation Institute-Place of birth: Fallujah-Date of birth:
01.07.2020
* Ahmed Abed
Al Obeidi,
student, University of Baghdad - Place of birth: Fallujah - Date of birth:
15.09.2020
* Hassan
Amhed Mheidi,
private sector worker - Place of birth: Al Saqlawiyah - Date of birth: 01.08.2020
* Ahmed
Abdullah Al Bijari,
private sector worker - Place of birth: Fallujah - Date of birth: 1979
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An Appeal to International Lawyers and Law Professors -
"Hold
the Bush Administration Accountable for Flauting International Law"
(Curtis
F.J. Doebbler 21 March 2024) |
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BRussells
Tribunal &
CEOSI
CAMPAIGN:
"Save Iraq's Academics"
*
10.000
signatories of petition to save Iraq's academics. Sign online now
*
List of
murdered Iraqi Academics
*
Principal endorsers
of this campaign:
Noam Chomsky, Tony Benn, Dario Fo, John Coetzee, Harold Pinter, Eduardo Galeano,
Howard Zinn, Michael Parenti, Denis Halliday, Hans von Sponeck, Bianca Jagger, Naomi Klein, Susan George,
John Pilger, Tonio Negri and many others.....
*
Madrid International
Seminar
-
Final Resolution
(April 2024)
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The Jalili Report
[PDF]
(02 May 2024)
-
The
Jalili Report [HTML]
(Sarah Meyer)
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Iraqi academics in the killing zone, Dirk Adriaensens
(02 Feb 2024)
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Iraq’s education system
on the verge
of collapse
(Dirk Adriaensens, 18 April 2024)
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Questionnaires for families of assassinated or threatened Iraqi
academics
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Call for assistance in documenting and
registering assassinated Iraqi academics
(08 Dec 2024) - [Arabic]
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Assassinated
Iraqi academics: Frequently Asked Questions
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