US-UK Sponsored Genocide Against Iraq 1990-2012. Killed 3.3 Million, Including 750,000 Children

Statement by Professor Francis Boyle, Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal

By Sherwood Ross, December 7, 2012

http://www.ukprogressive.co.uk/op-ed-us-uk-genocide-against-iraq-1990-2012-killed-3-3-million-including-750k-children/article21016.html

Approximately 3.3 million Iraqis, including 750,000 children, were “exterminated” by economic sanctions and/or illegal wars conducted by the U.S. and Great Britain between 1990 and 2012, an eminent international legal authority says.
The slaughter fits the classic definition of Genocide Convention Article II of, “Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part,” says Francis Boyle, professor of international law at the University of Illinois, Champaign, and who in 1991 filed a class-action complaint with the UN against President George H.W. Bush.
The U.S. and U.K. “obstinately insisted” that their sanctions remain in place until after the “illegal” Gulf War II aggression perpetrated by President George W. Bush and UK’s Tony Blair in March, 2003, “not with a view to easing the over decade-long suffering of the Iraqi people and children” but “to better facilitate the U.S./U.K. unsupervised looting and plundering of the Iraqi economy and oil fields in violation of the international laws of war as well as to the grave detriment of the Iraqi people,” Boyle said.
In an address last Nov. 22 to The International Conference on War-affected Children in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Boyle tallied the death toll on Iraq by U.S.-U.K. actions as follows:
-  The slaughter of 200,000 Iraqis by President Bush in his illegal 1991 Gulf War I.
-  The deaths of 1.4 million Iraqis as a result of the illegal 2003 war of aggression ordered by President Bush Jr. and Prime Minister Blair.
-  The deaths of 1.7 million Iraqis “as a direct result” of the genocidal sanctions.
Boyle’s class-action complaint demanded an end to all economic sanctions against Iraq; criminal proceedings for genocide against President George H.W. Bush; monetary compensation to the children of Iraq and their families for deaths, physical and mental injury; and for shipping massive humanitarian relief supplies to that country.
The “grossly hypocritical” UN refused to terminate the sanctions, Boyle pointed out, even though its own Food and Agricultural Organization’s Report estimated that by 1995 the sanctions had killed 560,000 Iraqi children during the previous five years.
Boyle noted that then U.S. Secretary of State Madeline Albright was interviewed on CBS-TV on May 12, 1996, in response to a question by Leslie Stahl if the price of half a million dead children was worth it, and replied, “we (the U.S. government) think the price is worth it.”
Albright’s shocking response provides “proof positive of the genocidal intent by the U.S. government against Iraq” under the Genocide Convention, Boyle said, adding that the government of Iraq today could still bring legal action against the U.S. and the U.K. in the International Court of Justice. He said the U.S.-U.K. genocide also violated the municipal legal systems of all civilized nations in the world; the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child; and the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 and its Additional Protocol 1 of 1977.
Boyle, who was stirred to take action pro bono by Mothers in Iraq after the economic sanctions had been imposed upon them by the Security Council in August, 1990, in response to pressure from the Bush Senior Administration. He is the author of numerous books on international affairs, including “Destroying World Order”.

 弗朗西斯博伊爾教授，吉隆坡戰爭罪行法庭的聲明
舍伍德·羅斯2012年12月7日


約3.3萬伊拉克人死亡，其中包括75萬名兒童，被“殺”的經濟制裁和/或非法的戰爭中，美國和英國在1990年和2012年之間進行的，一個著名的國際法律權威。
屠宰符合經典的滅絕種族罪公約“第二條的定義，”故意對本集團帶來毀滅其全部或部分的生活條件造成的，“弗朗西斯博伊爾說，在伊利諾伊大學國際法教授，香檳，並於1991年提交了一份集體訴訟投訴與聯合國反對總統喬治·H·W·布什。
美國和英國的“頑固地堅持”留在原地，他們的制裁，直到海灣戰爭“非法”II侵略總統喬治·W·布什和英國的托尼·布萊爾2003年3月後，緩解了十幾年，以“不苦難的伊拉克人民和兒童“，而是”以更好地促進美國/英國無人監督的搶劫和掠奪伊拉克違反國際戰爭法，以及嚴重損害了伊拉克人民的經濟和石油領域中，“博伊爾說。
在去年11月22日在馬來西亞的吉隆坡，受戰爭影響兒童問題國際會議上的地址，博伊爾相吻合的死亡人數對伊拉克的美英行動如下：
- 20萬伊拉克人，美國總統布什在他的1991年的海灣戰爭中一非法屠宰
- 140萬伊拉克人的死亡是由於2003年的非法戰爭的侵略總統小布什和布萊爾首相下令。
- 死亡，170萬伊拉克人“的直接結果”的種族滅絕的制裁。
波義耳的集體訴訟投訴，要求結束對伊拉克的經濟制裁，刑事法律程序中，種族滅絕反對總統喬治·H·W·布什貨幣補償，對死亡的伊拉克兒童和他們的家庭，身體和精神傷害和大規模的人道主義救援物資運送到該國。
“非常虛偽的”聯合國拒絕終止的制裁，博伊爾指出，即使自己的食品和農業組織的報告估計，到1995年，在過去五年的制裁殺害了56萬伊拉克兒童。
博伊爾指出，當時的美國國務卿國家奧爾布賴特採訪CBS-TV，1996年5月12日在回答記者提問時，萊斯利·斯塔爾是值得的，如果價格的一半多萬兒童死亡，回答說，“我們（美國政府）認為這個價格是值得的。“
奧爾布賴特的令人震驚的響應提供“證明積極的種族滅絕的意圖由美國政府對伊拉克”下的“防止及懲治滅絕種族罪公約”，博伊爾說，是在政府的伊拉克今天可能仍然帶來法律行動反對的美國和英國的國際法院司法部。他說，美英國的種族滅絕行為也違反了在世界上所有文明國家的國內法律系統，1989年的“兒童權利公約”和1949年“日內瓦第四公約”及其附加議定書1977年。
博伊爾，，攪拌採取行動無償的母親在伊拉克的經濟制裁後，一直強加給他們的安理會在1990年8月，從老布什行政當局的壓力。他是在國際事務中的許多書籍，包括“破壞世界秩序”的作者。