Surf these sites: "The Arab Holocaust" -- "2 million are dead. We cannot prevent it because it has already happened. All we can hope to do is stop it in the future to save our souls." A new policy needed for Iraq -- By Dennis Halliday - short opinion piece from the Boston Globe. AVI: Albright says half-million deaths ''worth it'' -- Madeleine Albright''s infamous "60 Minutes" comment (endorsing the death of a half-million Iraqi children due to sanctions as "worth it") is available here in AVI and WAV formats for download. Actions & Statements by Groups Opposing the Sanctions on Iraq -- Many press releases and news items. Al-Iraq.com -- Dedicated to raising awareness about Iraq above and voicing the plight of the Iraqi people that are suffering a slow holocaust. Anti-war organizer knocks down gov’t lies -- 5 most repeated lies about US Iraq policy, and how to respond to them. Banned by the sanctions! -- Books, candles, chalk, children''s clothes, dolls, dresses, fabrics, ink (!), kettles, medical journals, matches, paints, paper (!), pens, pots, thermometers, TOYS!... and 100s more. Banning Child Sacrifice - A Difficult Choice? -- By Kathy Kelly. "Repeatedly, the US media describes Iraq''s plight as ''hardship.'' Video footage and still photographs show professors selling their valuable books. Teenage students hawking jewelry in the market are interviewed about why they aren''t in school. These are sad stories, but they distract us from the major crisis in Iraq today, the story still shrouded in secrecy. This is the story of extreme cruelty, a story of medicines being withheld from dying children. It is a story of child abuse, of child sacrifice, and it merits day to day coverage." Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq (CASI) -- A UK campaign to lift the U.N. sanctions against Iraq, which kill 4,500 children every month, run by students at Cambridge University. If you have the time to scan through sometimes dozens of messages a week, it''s well worth joining their mailing list - you get so much interesting news and information! Denial of Genocide -- Whoever you think is to blame for thousands of children dying due to the sanctions, the fact that they are dying is now so well-evidenced it would be crazy to try and deny it. IPA: Autopsy of a disaster: The US sanctions policy on Iraq -- From the Institute for Public Accuracy. A timeline of the Iraq crisis, from Aug 1990 to Nov 1998. Briefer version also available. Impact of the Sanctions War on Iraq -- A huge quantity of facts and articles about children, mortality, health care, the environment, the economy and education in Iraq. International War Crimes Tribunal -- Alleges that the US has committed and is committing numerous War Crimes against Iraq, including: use of radioactive weapons, destruction of essential infrastructure, and starvation of an entire population through economic sanctions. Iraq Action Coalition -- Campaigns against both the sanctions, and bombing of Iraq. Iraq Resource Information Site (IRIS) -- Iraqi History, culture, people, archeology, music, and oppression (Iran Iraq and Persian Gulf Wars and Sanctions embargo) along with video, audio, and photos. Iraq''s children - paying the price with their lives - Albright says it''s ''worth it'' -- TO reflect on seven years of visits to Iraq since the Gulf War is to reflect on decline from the impossible to the apocalyptic. When Martti Ahtisaari, then special raporteur to the United Nations visited the country just after the Gulf War, he wrote that: "Nothing we had seen or read could have prepared us for this particular devastation, a country reduced to a pre-industrial age for a considerable time to come." Iraq: Sanctions - The Silent Weapon -- Sanctions are a weapon of mass destruction. From 1990, when sanctions were imposed on Iraq until 1995, half a million children under the age of five died of malnutrition and preventable diseases. Sanctions impose artificial famine. A third of Iraq''s surviving children today have stunted growth and nutritional deficiencies that will deform their shortened lives. Iraqi children -- Johanna Berrigan, a Catholic Worker lay person out of Philadelphia, is used to working with poor people, but she wasn''t prepared for a "death row for infants" that she found in Baghdad hospitals. Life & Death in Iraq -- Special Report from the Seattle Intelligencer. Report to UN Security Council re: Iraq -- Comprehensive report by Ramsey Clark on the huge death tolls and devastation created by the Gulf War and the 10-year economic sanctions against the people of Iraq. SAY NO TO SANCTIONS! SAY NO TO RACISM! -- How do you get to be a rogue nation? By standing up to the dictates of Washington. Iraq is a country that sits on top of a sea of oil and it has refused to allow the U.S. finance capital to rapaciously exploit its resources. That''s Iraq''s "crime." Sanctioning Peace -- Ttowards a broader understanding of the conflict with Iraq Sanctions on Iraq -- A comprehensive site on the effects of the embargo and action people can take. Sanctions on Iraq deny human rights -- US and British politicians talk about "upholding human rights", but their own records show it is all a cynical scam. Sign the NYT signature ad against sanctions! -- Join the campaign to end the sanctions against Iraq. Sign on to a signature ad to appear in the New York Times. Summary of Facts - 1998 -- Impact of the 8-year War on the People of Iraq. The Children of Iraq -- Newsletter about the plight of the children of Iraq, with eyewitness reports. The Silent Holocaust -- Of all the victims of sanctions, children are the most affected. According to a report by prominent child psychologist Professor Magne Raundalem for UNICEF this is ''the most traumatised child population on earth''. U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL VOTE CONTINUES MASS MURDER OF IRAQI CIVILIANS -- The Clinton administration is ignoring the pleas of many thousands of Americans of conscience, the Vatican, The World Council of Churches, the National Council of Churches, humanitarian relief agencies, educators, socially responsible professionals, and people of all political persuasions to end this silent war. Voices in the Wilderness - The Sanctions -- From previous trips, we knew exactly where to find overwhelming evidence of a weapon of mass destruction. Inspectors have only to enter the wards of any hospital in Iraq to see that the sanctions themselves are a lethal weapon, destroying the lives of Iraq''s most vulnerable people. In children''s wards, tiny victims writhe in pain, on blood-stained mats, bereft of anesthetics and antibiotics. Five thousand children, under age five, perish each month.
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