-Caveat Lector- : 1 out of every 4 children in Iraq suffers from chronic malnutrition : -UNICEF : A child dies every 10 minutes in Iraq because of Sanctions : -UNICEF : 250 people die every day in Iraq due to the effect of Sanctions : - UNICEF : "4,500 children under the age of 5 are dying each month from hunger : and disease. … The situation is disastrous for children. Many are : living on the very margin of survival." : - UNICEF : 500,000 Iraqi children have died due to Sanctions : -UNICEF : "Iraq's health system is close to collapse because medicines and : other life-saving supplies scheduled for importation under the oil- : for-food program have not arrived." : -WHO : "Since the onset of sanctions, there has been a six-fold increase in : the mortality rate for children under five and the majority of the : country's population has been on a semi-starvation diet." : - WHO : "[N]o significant movement towards food security can be achieved so : long as the embargo remains in place." : - UNICEF : "[T]he country has experienced a shift from relative affluence to : massive poverty. In marked contrast to the prevailing situation prior : to the events of 1990-91, the infant mortality rates in Iraq today : are among the highest in the world … The gravity of the : humanitarian situation of the Iraqi people is indisputable and cannot : be overstated." : - UN Humanitarian Panel Report : "The inherent inhumanity of economic sanctions damages those who : impose it. As an American, I resent having my national character : stained this way." : - Scott Rittter, former UNSCOM Chief Weapons Inspector : "Iraq's social fabric is under serious attack [due to Sanctions]." : - Hans von Sponeck, UN Humanitarian Coordinator : "We are destroying an entire society. It is as simple and as : terrifying as that." : - Denis Halliday, UN Humanitarian Coordinator : "This is genocide. Children are dying slowly and painfully. If we : want democracy and human rights in Iraq, we have to stop the economic : sanctions, which kill people and destroy all educational and social : services." : - Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Nobel Laureate : "We call on the president of America, the vice president and the : congressmen to come to Iraq and see the little children and Tony : Blair, the U.K. government and Kofi Annan to come and to go to the : cancer ward and give us an answer ... what was their crime?" : - Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Nobel Laureate : "Sanctions are the economic nuclear bomb. In fifty years we will : wonder, `where was the world when Iraqi children were : dying?'" : - Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Nobel Laureate : "First I sold my television, then my furniture, then my car, then my : house. Everything that I built up over a lifetime is gone. A bomb is : something you hear far away, or at worst, it kills you in a second. : Sanctions kill you every day." : - Mohammed Abdul Razaq, retired Iraqi office worker : Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ : Before you buy. <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
