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The Chilcot Inquiry must tell the truth
June 28th, 2016 | 
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By Mairead Maguire
The long awaited Chilcot report (5 years) on the Invasion of Iraq will finally be released on 6th July, 2016.
The Report is to be welcomed and the hope expressed that this inquiry will tell the truth of what happened to the Iraqi people and clarify the UKs involvement, through an official Government recognition of facts of the wars, sanctions and invasion of Iraq and for transparency, accountability and reparation to be paid to the Iraqi people by the UK Government who participated in these illegal and immoral genocidal wars.
The story of what was done to the Iraqi people by UK and Western allies is shocking and deeply disturbing.
The two wars, the imposition of economic sanctions, causing the slow deaths of thousands of people, were indeed crimes against humanity, war crimes, breaking all international obligations and conducted with no respect for human life or the Iraqi people’s rights.
The UK/USA acted unilaterally ignoring the principal of multilateralism and irrespective of the enormous opposition to war against Iraq, articulated by millions of people around the world.
The invasion was carried out by US/UK NATO forces on the basis of a ‘lie’ that Iraq had nuclear weapons and was a threat to the US.
The foreign policy of the US/UK governments were for regime change and about Iraqi oil; the methods used were Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in International law, Iraq, Islamophobia, Mairead Maguire, Middle East, NATO, Nonviolence, Nuclear weapons, Pro-peace & proposals, Reconciliation & forgiveness, Sanctions, UN matters, US Empire, USA, Violence-prevention, World order/governance | 
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TFF PressInfo: “The human price of the war on Iraq” Hearing Statement
Comments by Hans-C. von Sponeck
Former UN Assistant Secretary General, UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq & TFF Associate
Hearing at the UK House of Commons, London June 10, 2014
Intro
1. HoC/HoL have repeatedly held Iraq hearings as have British NGOs such as CASI (Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq) and Stop the War Coalition/UK. In Europe these are considered models for responsible public action.
2. My contribution at this hearing is not about the crimes of dictatorship or the details of Iraqi suffering. For both well researched data is available. The objective of my participation is to make two detailed observations about externally-driven Iraq politics during the period 1990-2014.
Observation 1
3. Today’s tragic Iraq reality can only be understood if the additive impact of the years before and the years following the US/UK Governments’ illegal invasion and occupation is fully taken into account. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Culture, Culture & religion, Democracy - local & global, Development, Ethics and values, Hans von Sponeck, Human rights and justice, International law, Iraq, Media perspectives, Middle East, Nuclear weapons, Peace, Psychology - war & peace, Sanctions, Terrorism, TFF PressInfo, UN matters, US Empire, Violence-prevention, World order/governance |
Tags: Abu Ghraib, Dato Agam Hasmy, Denis Haliday, destruction in Iraq, Geneva Conventions, humanitarian program, illiteracy in Iraq, Iraq compensation, Iraq poverty, Iraq sanctions, Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission (KLWCC), Kurdish-Arab divide, Oil for Food, Sir John Chilcot, Tony Blair, UN Compensation Committee, UN Security Council, UNICEF, US/UK war on Iraq, war criminals, Western war criminals, World Bank |
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