A new report -
Iraq: Humanitarian Issues and Tensions in the Oil-for-Food Programme 1998-2000 and Beyond
written by Hans von Sponeck - UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq (1998-2000) -
claims that the US/UK led sanctions killed many times more Iraqis than the war so far has.
While the debate on fraud within the UN dominates the media, we (are made to)forget that the real issue ought to be: Why did the UN Security Council members persist in upholding a sanctions regime full well knowing that its effects amounted to one of the largest genocides in modern times?
The rapport was presented to The Inaugural Conference of the International Association of Contemporary Iraqi Studies at the University of East London, London - in September 2005
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