IRAQ SANCTIONS
- WHY PROTEST?
• ECONOMIC SANCTIONS ARE STILL IN PLACE AFTER 10 YEARS
• 6000 IRAQI CHILDREN DIE MONTHLY FROM MALNUTRITION,
LACK OF MEDICINE AND CONTAMINATED WATER
• THE VALUE OF FOOD RECEIVED UNDER THE "OIL-FOR-FOOD"
PROGRAMME IS JUST £3.57 PER IRAQI PER MONTH
• IN HOSPITALS OPERATIONS ARE CARRIED OUT WITHOUT
ANAESTHETIC OR DISINFECTANT OR BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS
• UK TAXPAYERS ARE STILL FUNDING ONGOING BOMBING OF
IRAQ BY BRITISH WARPLANES AT THE RATE OF £4m A MONTH
In the words of U.N. Humanitarian Co-ordinator Hans von Sponeck "How long should the the civilian population of Iraq be exposed to such punishment for something they have never done?"
Sanctions imposed on a once-prosperous country have led to widespread malnutrition and lack of the most basic medicines, including vaccines. Inflation since 1990 is at a staggering 300,000%. Under the "Oil for Food" programme, Iraq has sold $35 billion worth of oil - but afer paying reparations and the costs of U.N. inspectors and administrators, received less than a quarter of that in humanitarian relief. Three senior U.N. officials have resigned because they could no longer agree with the suffering sanctions are causing. Hans von Sponeck, and Denis Halliday, former U.N. Assistant Secretary General, are now actively campaigning against sanctions they consider genocidal.
WHAT CAN WE DO ?
If you feel the sanctions and bombing raids serve no purpose except to cause suffering to the innocent, and that £4 + m of your taxes MONTHLY should not be used to finance the almost daily bombing of Iraq, PLEASE WRITE NOW TO
Tony Blair, or Robin Cook, or your MP at: The House of Commons London SWIA OAA.
Contact Voices in the Wilderness, (01865)-243232 / Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq, c/o Y. Ghazi-Tabatabai, Trinity College, Cambridge CB2 ITQ
END THE SANCTIONS - BREAK THE SILENCE