Condemn The UN Decade of Genocide

August 6, 2000, marks ten years of war against the people of Iraq legitimized
by the United Nations Security Council. On August 6, 1990, the SC imposed
sanctions, on November 29, 1990, it authorized the Gulf War massacre, and
with its postwar siege it has devastated the Iraqi people.
Since 1990, US foreign policy has relentlessly pursued the strangulation of
Iraq. US imperial interests - to control Iraqi oil and to militarily dominate

the Middle East - are well served by UN-authorized sanctions. The SC enables
and provides political cover for economic genocide.
* The SC has become an accomplice to widespread human rights violations.  SC
sanctions deny the people of Iraq their most fundamental rights - rights to
education, to health care, to travel, to economic development, the right to
life itself.  Successive UN administrators have resigned in protest against
these violations and have condemned the sanctions before the world.
* UN reports document the murderous effects of SC Resolutions on the people
of Iraq. These gruesome statistics prove sanctions kill as effectively as
armed conflict.
* The UNSC sanctions deprive Iraq of its self-determination and its most
elementary sovereign rights. Iraq's oil production, export, and revenues are
the sovereign property of the Iraqi people.
THE ESCALATING WAR
The UN Security Council has failed to condemn the ongoing military aggression

by the United States and Great Britain against the sovereign nation of Iraq.
US and UK warplanes constantly invade Iraqi airspace, and bomb almost
everyday.
In April of this year the Turkish army again invaded northern Iraq. The US
supported these attacks on the Kurdish people in Iraq. The Clinton
administration continues to claim the "no-fly-zones" are to protect the Kurds

within Iraq.
Within the context of constant aggression by vastly superior military forces
and invasion, the UNSC demand for Iraq's disarmament is a perversion of
peace. The UNSC demand for Iraq's disarmament is not impartial peacemaking;
it is a direct political support for ongoing aggression by the most powerful
military force in the world.
1284: a UNSC prescription for US war
On December 17, 1999 the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 1284 that
establishes sanctions as the permanent status for Iraq. Within this
resolution sanctions can not be ended, only the periodic suspension of
sanctions are possible. Suspended sanctions are only possible if Iraq agrees
to a rerun of a UN weapons inspection fiasco.
The name change to UNMOVIC can not hide the shameful legacy of UNSCOM. Iraq
has the sovereign right to refuse spies and intelligence operatives from
hostile nations.
1284 prepares the groundwork for another US military offensive against Iraq.
In the aftermath of the revelations of US spying within UN weapon's
inspection teams and their withdrawal from Iraq, President Clinton in
December 1998, launched 2,000 guided cruise missile bombs into Iraq. Clinton
cited Iraq's "noncompliance with UN weapons inspections" to justify the
unilateral attack. The August, 2000 timetable for renewed UN arms inspection
sets the stage for another major escalation of the US war.
SOLIDARITY WITH THE IRAQI PEOPLE
After ten years of murderous sanctions and war diplomatic posturing and
humanitarian platitudes by the Security Council are a cruel farce. To
challenge powerful imperial interests the nations and people of the world
must step forward and voice their solidarity with the Iraqi people. The
violations of the human rights of the Iraqi people stem directly from the
arrogant disregard of Iraq's sovereignty. The people of the United States and

Britain who support human rights should distinguished themselves from the
actions and policies of their government.
We call on the member states of the United Nations and individuals within the

UN to take immediate emergency action to end the genocide.
Condemn the Decade of UN Genocide Against Iraq
at the United Nations. Friday, August 4, 2000, from 11:30AM -1:30PM.

Campaign to End the Sanctions
Kitty Bryant
Bob Allen
215-438-4181 e-mail: endsanctions@cs.com