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From: "Frank Dorrel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 01:10:43
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: SANCTIONS TAKE GRAVE TOLL ON IRAQI CHILDREN
This letter I wrote, was printed in the Los Angeles Times Opinion
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Section, yesterday, Sunday Dec. 31, 2000.
SANCTIONS TAKE GRAVE TOLL ON IRAQI CHILDREN
Thank you for writing the story about the effects of the sanctions on the
people of Iraq ("Southland Muslims Seek to Ease U.S.-Led Embargo on Iraq,"
Dec. 25). UNICEF and other world health organizations say that the sanctions
are causing the deaths of 4 to 5,000 Iraqi children every month. The number
of sanctions related deaths has risen to over 1.5 million in the last ten
years.
Denis Halliday worked for the United Nations for 34 years. He was the
Director of the Oil for Food Program in Iraq, who resigned from the UN after
one year at this assignment, saying the sanctions are causing a genocide to
the children of Iraq.
These children are innocent and have nothing to do with the United States
battles with Saddam Hussein. If more American people really understood what
horrific conditions the sanctions have caused to the children of Iraq, I
believe they would not allow them to continue. The children do not have
clean water to drink because the water systems in Iraq were destroyed during
the bombing, ten years ago. The sanctions do not allow Iraq the materials
needed for the rebuilding of the water system. They are dying from diarrhea
and dysentery, which would not be happening if they were drinking clean
water or if they had the proper medicines.
Over 200,000 Iraqi's were killed in the first six weeks of the Persian Gulf
War, with more tonage of bombs being dropped then were dropped in all of
World War II.
I will be at the Westside Federal Building with many others at 6:00 PM on
Tuesday January 16th, on the 10th anniversary of the start of that bombing.
Our collective statement is that we want to see the sanctions ended and the
bombing of Iraq, which has continued weekly and killed thousands more
Iraqi's, to stop!
If you are interested in learning more about the effects the
sanctions are having on the people of Iraq, I have put together a 2-hour
video compilation featuring the documentary called "Genocide by
Sanctions". Also on this tape are former attorney general of the United
States, Ramsey Clark, who has been to Iraq many times in the last ten
years and has written what I believe is the best book on what we actually
did to Iraq during the Persian Gulf War, "The Fire This Time". The Rev.
James Lawson, who taught non-violence with
Martin Luther King. Kathy Kelly of Voices in the Wilderness, who has also
been to Iraq many times since the war. Gloria La Riva, who directed
"Genocide by Sanctions". Michel Sheadeh, an Arab-American peace activist,
acts as the host. And finally, Denis Halliday, who worked for the United
Nations for 34 years, ran the Oil-for-Food Program in Iraq for one year
before resigning his position, calling the sanctions a genocide against
the children of Iraq and putting the blame on the U.S. and England.
I will send you this video for $6, including postage. Send me your
mailing address and I will send you this video so you can judge for
yourself. It is up to the American people to make our government
lift the sanctions that are killing the children of Iraq. The vast
majority of countries in the world are for lifting the sanctions.
In Peace,
Frank Dorrel
Save the Iraqi Children Coalition
310-838-8131
3967 Shedd Terrace
Culver City, Calif. 90232
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