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Iraqi health |
"The Sanctions Committee in New York
has blocked or delayed a range of cancer diagnostic equipment
and drugs, even painkillers. Professor Karol Sikora, as chief
of the cancer programme of the World Health Organisation, wrote
in the British Medical Journal: "Requested radiotherapy
equipment, chemotherapy drugs and analgesics are consistently
blocked by United States and British advisers [to the Sanctions
Committee]. There seems to be a rather ludicrous notion that
such agents could be converted into chemical or other weapons.""
John
Pilger March 2001 |
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war as a humanitarian
response |
" A report for the UN Secretary General, written by Professor
Marc Bossuyt, a distinguished authority on international
law, says that the "sanctions regime against
Iraq is unequivocally illegal under existing human rights law"
and "could raise questions under the Genocide Convention".
John
Pilger March 2001 |
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UN sanctions |
" As of last July, $5.4billion worth of humanitarian
supplies, approved by the UN and paid for by the Iraqi government,
were blocked by Washington, with the Blair government's approval.
The former assistant secretary general of the UN, Denis Halliday,
who was sent to Iraq to set up the "oil for food programme",
described the effects of the embargo as "nothing less than
genocide". Similar words have been used by his successor,
Hans Von Sponeck... Both men resigned in protest, saying the
embargo merely reinforced the power of Saddam." John
Piilger March 26, 2003 |
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pilger