Sadam's Death For Oil program KILLED millions of Iraqi people - The Diigo Meta page

• 22 Feb 08
  

  liveinfreedom .

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  • Resolution 1302 is a continuation of the Oil-for-Food programme, which was not designed to resolve the crisis in Iraq. When it was assembled in 1996, it was designed to stop further deterioration. But the fact is that Oil-for-Food has sustained the humanitarian crisis. Mortality rates of children under five years of age still remain at 5,000 per month, plus an additional 2,000-3,000 people per month among adults, other children and teenagers. These people are dying because of bad water, inadequate diets, broken down hospital care and collapsed systems.   

    We have massive malnutrition in Iraq, despite the Oil-for-Food programme. There is a huge social collapse, families falling apart with children out of school taking to the streets. The electric power is 35 per cent of what it was in 1990. So the Oil-for-Food programme has totally failed to bring about the well being of the Iraqi people. Having said that, it has, however, provided something like 20 million tonnes of basic food. It does make a huge difference in keeping the Iraqi people alive -- but only barely alive.   

    The conditions in Iraq today under the UN economic sanctions and the Oil-for-Food programme constitute famine conditions. The average birth weight of a child in Iraq today is less than five pounds. That is an indicator of famine. The Oil-for-Food programme is something that the UN should be ashamed of. It is a continuation of the genocide that the economic embargo has placed on Iraq.

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  liveinfreedom . on 2008-02-22
  While there are many controversies regarding U.N. resolutions and sanctions placed by the U.N. against Iraq it remains a fact that Sadam's beligerent attitude to the U.N. documents and to the IAIE (Unscom) caused the death of the people and children identified in the data below.
  
  
  Resolution 1302
  is a continuation of the Oil-for-Food programme, which was not designed
  to resolve the crisis in Iraq. When it was assembled in 1996, it was
  designed to stop further deterioration. But the fact is that
  Oil-for-Food has sustained the humanitarian crisis. Mortality rates of
  children under five years of age still remain at 5,000 per month, plus
  an additional 2,000-3,000 people per month among adults, other children
  and teenagers. These people are dying because of bad water, inadequate
  diets, broken down hospital care and collapsed systems.

  We
  have massive malnutrition in Iraq, despite the Oil-for-Food programme.
  There is a huge social collapse, families falling apart with children
  out of school taking to the streets. The electric power is 35 per cent
  of what it was in 1990. So the Oil-for-Food programme has totally
  failed to bring about the well being of the Iraqi people. Having said
  that, it has, however, provided something like 20 million tonnes of
  basic food. It does make a huge difference in keeping the Iraqi people
  alive -- but only barely alive.

  The
  conditions in Iraq today under the UN economic sanctions and the
  Oil-for-Food programme constitute famine conditions. The average birth
  weight of a child in Iraq today is less than five pounds. That is an
  indicator of famine. The Oil-for-Food programme is something that the
  UN should be ashamed of. It is a continuation of the genocide that the
  economic embargo has placed on Iraq.
  

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