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> From: "Global Women's Strike"
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> To: <womenstrike8m@...>
> Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 3:24 PM
> Subject: Torture of Iraqi women
>
>
> > The recent exposures of rape and sexual
humiliation in Iraq by the
US
> > military have focused on the torture of men. We
are circulating
three
> > documents about what is happening to women at the
hands of the US
and UK
> > forces, both Iraqi women and women in the US
military:
> >
> > 1. A statement from Black Women's Rape Action
Project and Women
Against
> Rape
> > to women legislators.
> > 2. A statement from the Global Women's Strike.
> > 3. Attached is a statement from a former US
Airforce Captain and
Commander
> > who herself suffered rape as a serving officer and
who speaks about
how
> > widespread rape is.
> >
> > We have also received the following further news
via email from
Canada:
> >
> > "Dozens of former detainees and their families
came forward Sunday,
May
9,
> > to tell their experiences of physical, sexual, and
psychological
torture
> at
> > the hands of U.S. soldiers in Iraqi prison camps.
The press
conference
in
> > Baghdad was organized by several Iraqi and
international human
rights
> > organizations, including CPT, which have been
documenting
violations
> against
> > detainees and their families since last summer. .
.
> > "A fifty-year-old man in traditional dress who was
in Abu Ghraib
prison
> camp
> > last winter testified that U.S. soldiers herded
detainees into a
room in
> > groups of ten to twenty men and stripped them
naked. The soldiers
ordered
> > one detainee to rape the others. The soldiers then
ordered half of
the
> > detainees to sit on the ground and engage in oral
sex with the
standing
> > detainees. . . Still there was a younger man with
me, very
handsome. The
> > soldiers stripped him naked. When he refused
[sexual advances from
the
> > soldiers], they tortured him for three days. A
woman soldier
blindfolded
> him
> > and led him naked into the women's prison. He was
there for twenty
days,
> > naked. He witnessed the sexual abuse of the women
detainees by the
U.S.
> > guards."
> >
> > If you have any information about what is
happening to women at the
hands
> of
> > US & British troops in Iraq, or Afgahnistan, or
elsewhere, please
get in
> > touch with us.
> >
> > Stop the world and change it.
> > Global Women's Strike
>
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> > TO WOMEN LEGISLATORS OF THE COALITION OF THE
WILLING
> > 12 May 2004
> >
> > NEITHER BLOOD NOR RAPE FOR OIL
> > Coming clean on rape and other sexual torture of
women and girls at
the
> > hands of US and UK armed forces or their agents in
Iraq and
Afghanistan
> >
> > By Black Women's Rape Action Project and Women
Against Rape
> >
> > We are writing to you, women legislators in both
the UK and the US.
That
> > there are now many more women in Congress and in
Parliament is due
to a
> > massive women's movement over decades in every
area of this planet.
In
> the
> > name of all the women whose movement helped get
you there, we ask
for
your
> > accountability in the present crisis of war,
occupation, war crimes
and
> > torture, including rape, in which both your
governments are
complicit.
> >
> > 1. THE RAPE AND TORTURE OF WOMEN AND GIRLS HAS
BEEN LARGELY HIDDEN
> >
> > Information has exploded onto our screens and in
all the media
about the
> > sexual humiliation, torture and murder of
prisoners in Iraq and the
murder
> > of civilians, including children, in the streets
and in their own
homes.
> > Questions are also being raised about Afghanistan.
Yet while the
rape
of
> > men (and increasingly boys) is beginning to be
acknowledged, the
rape of
> > women and girls was initially dismissed as "a
soldier had sex with
a
woman
> > prisoner." Greater truth is now emerging.
> >
> > Iraqi women have told us that women are in prison
to be
interrogated and
> > tortured to get information on male relatives.
For women, torture
almost
> > always begins with the torture of rape, often gang
rape. A US
reporter
> said
> > that "Last month women prisoners at Abu Ghraib
smuggled out
leaflets
> > claiming they'd been raped." (Anne Garrels,
National Public Radio,
4 May
> > 2004) A woman from Baghdad University working for
Amnesty
International
> has
> > described her own sexual abuse at a check point
and what she knows
from
> > others. "He pointed the laser sight directly in
the middle of my
chest,
> the
> > n he pointed to his penis. He told me, 'Come here,
bitch, I'm going
to
> fuck
> > you.' . . . According to Prof. Huda Shaker several
women in Abu
Ghraib
> jail
> > were sexually abused, including one who was raped
by an American
military
> > policeman and became pregnant." (London Guardian
12 May) Other
sources
> have
> > confirmed this.
> >
> > The horrendous prison conditions to which women
have been subjected
have
> > been mentioned as an aside. Iraq's human rights
minister, Abdel
Bassat
> > Turki, who resigned a month ago, said he spoke to
US chief
administrator
> > Paul Bremer last November about the treatment of
women in Abu
Ghraib:
> "They
> > had been denied medical treatment. They had no
proper toilet.
They had
> > only been given one blanket, even though it was
winter. And their
> families
> > had not been allowed to visit them." (London
Guardian 10 May 2004)
> >
> > The International Committee of the Red Cross
report hardly mentions
women,
> > and their reporter interviewed only men. (There
has been no
mention
> either
> > that the ICRC reports there were riots against the
prison
conditions and
> > Iraqis were shot dead.)
> >
> > Why are these attacks on women largely invisible?
Have you or
others
asked
> > questions about this? How many men will ask if
women do not? If
you did
> > ask, what answers have you received? Why are they
not yet known to
the
> > public?
> >
> > 2. MOST WOMEN AND GIRLS CANNOT SPEAK OUT
> >
> > Organisations like Black Women's Rape Action
Project and Women
Against
> Rape
> > which have been demanding justice and protection
for women for
decades
and
> > which work with asylum seekers from all over the
world who have
fled
rape,
> > know only too well that most rape survivors
anywhere in the world
find
it
> > almost impossible to speak about their ordeal.
They feel degraded
and
> > ashamed, especially since society and the criminal
justice system
usually
> > blame the woman for what happened to her. In both
the UK and the
US,
> women
> > often call the trial of their attacker "a second
rape" as it is the
> woman's
> > mental state and sexual history which are publicly
examined to
destroy
her
> > credibility and get the rapist off. In other
countries, hostility
to
the
> > victim can be even more extreme. Rape survivors
may be
un-marriageable,
> > ostracised and even killed. We have read that
girls as young as
nine
who
> > were raped under Saddam Hussein were refused
hospital treatment and
that
> > this practice continues under the occupation.
> >
> > An Iraqi lawyer said that her client, an ex-Abu
Ghraib prisoner,
"fainted
> > before providing further details of being raped
and knifed by U.S.
> soldiers.
> > Another lawyer representing five former detainees
described to
their
> lawyers
> > having been beaten. But they did not say they had
been raped.
"They are
> > very ashamed." "They say, 'We can't tell you. We
have families.
We
> cannot
> > speak about what happened.' " (Los Angeles Times,
12 May 2004) "A
female
> > colleague of mine was arrested and taken [to Abu
Ghraib]. When I
asked
> her
> > after she was released what happened there she
started crying. It
is
very
> > difficult to talk about rape. But I think it
happened." Prof.
Huda
said
> > the woman made pregnant as a result of rape by a
US soldier has now
> > disappeared and may have been killed. "When I went
to her house . .
.
the
> > neighbours said she and her family had moved
away." (London
Guardian 10
> May
> > 2004).
> >
> > How convenient for the troops that the women and
girls they rape
should
be
> > too vulnerable to tell the truth.
> >
> > 3. PHOTOS OF WOMEN'S TORTURE HAVE NOT HIT THE
FRONT PAGES
> >
> > Given that women and girls who are rape survivors
risk being
ostracised
> and
> > even killed, we must protect their anonymity. Yet
unless there is
> > incriminating photo proof, those in power seem
unwilling to
acknowledge
> what
> > is going on. There has been no statement and no
apology regarding
the
> rape
> > and other torture of women and girls.
> >
> > We attach photos which have been sent to us of
women being raped by
> > soldiers, which have already appeared on some
websites. We have
disguised
> > the women's identity and will not circulate any
photo where women
are
> > identifiable. While we cannot verify the
authenticity of these
photos,
it
> > is clear from all the other information now
circulating that these
or
> > similar rapes have taken place. We have heard
that thousands of
photos
> like
> > these have circulated like baseball cards among
the troops and even
used
> as
> > computer screensavers. The Pentagon is quoted as
saying that it
knows
of
> at
> > least two CDs of photos containing several hundred
images of US
troops
> > "abusing" prisoners, including "beating an Iraqi
inmate to the
point of
> > unconsciousness, having sex with a female
prisoner, and gloating
over a
> > corpse." (London Guardian 10 May 2004).
> >
> > It is not new for rape or other sexual torture to
serve as
pornography.
> > Women Against Rape (WAR) has complained that in
Britain in "normal"
times
> > photos and witness statements where the victim
describes her rape
are
> often
> > circulated for their pornographic value in prisons
by convicted
rapists
as
> > well as among the police.
> >
> > 4. WE WANT TO KNOW
> > We want to know what is happening to women and
girls in Iraq, in
prison
> and
> > elsewhere, at the hands of British and US troops,
beginning with
the
women
> > already mentioned. We want to know what is
happening to women in
> > Afghanistan at the hands of occupying forces
there. We understand
that
> much
> > of the brutality and murder may be perpetrated by
or on the orders
of
the
> > CIA and private military contractors - a euphemism
for mercenaries.
We
> want
> > to know about any mercenaries guilty of any of
these crimes against
women
> > and children, and how much they were paid to
perform and/or oversee
these
> > atrocities.
> >
> > Despite international precedents to the contrary,
it is common for
the
US
> > and the UK to consider rape by agents of the State
not to be
torture and
> > therefore grounds for political asylum. As a
result, women are
> consistently
> > denied the international protection to which we
are entitled. For
> example,
> > the UK asylum claim of a mother of five who fled
Uganda after being
raped
> by
> > soldiers who were interrogating her, was
repeatedly rejected by the
> > authorities. The rape, they said, was merely
"sexual
gratification" and
> > "simple dreadful lust", not torture or
persecution. Only after she
> decided
> > to give up her anonymity so that we could make her
case public, and
after
> we
> > called on prominent women to support her, did she
finally win the
right
to
> > asylum in 2003. We have examples of many such
cases in our files.
> >
> > While rape is not limited to war, everyone
acknowledges that in war
rape
> is
> > inevitable. In order to make war, men, and now
women (since we
have
been
> > urged to be more like men as the only route to
equality), are
trained to
> > kill. Once killing is acceptable, rape is hardly
a moral problem.
And
> > during a period of mass slaughter, rape is even
less likely to be
taken
> > seriously. When Iraqi casualties are treated as
irrelevant as they
have
> > been (the body counts are for US and UK troops not
for Iraqi or
Afghani
> > military or even civilians), are we not also
expected to dismiss or
ignore
> > the rape and other torture of Iraqis or Afghanis?
> >
> > - So why is the rape of women and children treated
as a surprise
result
of
> > war now? Why were no questions asked about rape
during the debate
about
> > whether to go to war?
> >
> > Defence secretary Geoff Hoon, commenting on the
photos of torture
by US
> and
> > UK troops, said: "I do not see that it is torture:
it is abuse. I
do
not
> > see any evidence of systematic torture in terms of
interrogation."
> (London
> > Guardian 7 May). Donald Rumsfeld has said
publicly that photos and
videos
> > depicting worse atrocities are still to come;
these are rumoured to
> contain
> > scenes of the rape of women and children.
> >
> > - How will such rape be viewed if what we have
seen so far is not
> considered
> > torture? How do you plan to deal with further
information on rape
that
is
> > bound to emerge? Will you excuse it as Ann Clwyd,
the UK
government's
> > special envoy for human rights, initially did,
saying that it was
not as
> bad
> > as what Saddam Hussein had done? She now says
that she was never
shown
> the
> > International Committee of the Red Cross report.
Will she resign?
> >
> > 5. RAPE OF WOMEN SOLDIERS AND WITHIN SOLDIERS'
FAMILIES
> >
> > - What are the implications for the families of
officers, soldiers
and
> > mercenaries who are trained to rape, murder and
torture with
impunity in
> > this way? How often do they face rape and other
violence at the
hands of
> > these same men? How often do they get justice?
> >
> > The effects of army training and war on women
soldiers and the
families
of
> > military men is dealt with in an extensive letter
by our colleague,
former
> > air force captain Dorothy Mackey. Rev. Mackey was
herself raped
within
> the
> > US army, and has been in touch with many other
women (and some men)
> > survivors of such violence, either within the
military or as
partners of
> > military men. She makes clear that rape of women
within the army
is
> > condoned by the hierarchy. Soldiers' rape of
women is treated as a
> > component of soldiers' pay, a cost not to
governments but to women.
We
> > enclose excerpts from Rev. Mackey's expose. More
comprehensive
> > documentation is available on request. Rev.
Mackey has forwarded
to us
> the
> > preposterous "McDowell's scoring" system used by
the US military
for
> > assessing the veracity of rape allegations.
Investigating
themselves
and
> > accountable to no one, they employ every prejudice
against women to
> dismiss
> > the victims as liars.
> >
> > We now hear that 100 US women soldiers are
claiming to have been
raped
by
> > their colleagues while serving in Iraq.
> >
> > - Will this or similar sexist measures be used to
"weed out" women
who
> > manage to come forward with allegations of rape in
Iraq or
Afghanistan?
?
> > What will you do to ensure that these cases are
investigated by
people
> truly
> > independent of the authorities that are accused of
the assaults?
> >
> > 6. WE DEMAND ACCOUNTABILITY FROM WOMEN IN CONGRESS
AND PARLIAMENT
> >
> > We do not accept that those in authority merely
"turned a blind
eye".
> There
> > is mounting evidence that orders to torture,
including rape, came
from
the
> > highest levels. Neither do we accept that the UK
government bears
no
> > responsibility for the actions of US troops and
vice versa. The
Coalition
> > of the Willing must mean joint responsibility.
> >
> > - Why are women soldiers who took part in the
outrages we all know
about
> > apparently the first ones to be named and
prosecuted? Why has no
one in
a
> > position of authority resigned? Will you ask that
they do now and
face
> > prosecution?
> >
> > We are asking, urging, in fact demanding, that on
the issue of the
rape
of
> > women and children which took place as a direct
result of the war
and
> > occupation that your governments perpetrated in
Iraq and
Afghanistan,
that
> > the women in Congress and in Parliament are
accountable to women
> generally.
> > We need the full information and we need to know
what you propose
to do
> > about it, individually and collectively.
> >
> > We must point out that even in 'normal' times, the
forces of law
and
order
> > have always found ways of protecting the rapist.
> >
> > In the UK, Soham murderer Ian Huntley, convicted
in 2003, was
reported
> nine
> > times for rape and sexual assault over years
before killing
schoolgirls
> > Holly Chapman and Jessica Wells. This is typical
of the sexism of
the
> > criminal justice system when dealing with rape.
Nationally, just
5% of
> > recorded cases of domestic violence and less than
6% of reported
rapes
end
> > in conviction. Incompetence and carelessness
permeate the
gathering of
> > evidence (beginning with the woman's statement to
the police), and
the
> > decision on whether to prosecute. In court, in the
23% of cases
that get
> > that far, the woman or girl is "put on trial", and
is left
undefended by
> the
> > prosecuting barrister and by the judge. Victims
who are Black,
immigrant,
> > working class, single mothers, children, older,
lesbian, have
disabilities
> > or a mental health history, who were attacked by
their partner or
> > ex-partner, are sex workers or have a criminal
record, stand even
less
> > chance of getting justice or protection,
especially if their
attacker
has
> > higher social status. Rape and sexual abuse by
police officers,
soldiers
> > and prison guards are notoriously difficult to get
the police to
> investigate
> > and the Crown Prosecution Service to prosecute,
even when the
victim is
a
> > fellow (woman) officer. We can document this from
our files.
> >
> > Emails: bwrap@...
war@...
> > Crossroads Women's Centre 230a Kentish Town Rd,
London NW5 2AB
Tel 020
> > 7482 2496
>
>
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> > RAPE AND OTHER TORTURE IN IRAQ
> > A statement from the Global Women's Strike
> > www.globalwomenstrike.net
womenstrike8m@...
> >
> > The present outcry over the torture of Iraqi
prisoners by US and UK
forces
> > in Iraq would never have happened if the photos
had not been
published.
> > Their publication and the impact they have had
signal that the
biggest
> > anti-war movement the world has ever seen has had
a profound effect
on
> > everyone. The US and UK governments ignored it,
hoping it would go
away
> but
> > it never has. It is this movement which has
pushed these images
onto
our
> > screens and front pages across the world.
> >
> > Governments tried to claim - as usual - that this
exposure of their
> actions
> > was "irresponsible," but without the photos the
torture and killing
that
> had
> > been documented for a year would never have been
available to us:
the
> > precondition to our being able to stop it. In the
same way, the
> > anti-Vietnam war movement gave us the tragic photo
of the little
girl
> > burning from US napalm referred to now as a
turning point in ending
that
> > war.
> >
> > 1. HIDDEN FROM HISTORY - THE IMPACT OF WAR AND
OCCUPATION ON WOMEN
AND
> > GIRLS
> > But despite the fact that women have been even
more opposed to war
than
> men
> > (our experience and every poll confirms this), the
effects of the
war
and
> > occupation on women and girls, including the
torture of women
prisoners,
> > have hardly been touched upon. We know that there
are thousands of
> photos,
> > many of them of women being raped. (See statement
by Black Women's
Rape
> > Action Project and Women Against Rape.) It has
also emerged that
most
of
> > the thousands of people, including many children,
picked up
arbitrarily
in
> > Iraq, have been imprisoned for months, most for no
reason, without
their
> > families being informed of their whereabouts.
Mothers, the first
carers
> in
> > any community, and other relatives are left to
trudge in the heat
from
> > prison to prison searching for their loved ones -
another form of
torture,
> > characteristic of dictatorship. And there is
clearly no guarantee
that
no
> > one has been disappeared in the process.
> >
> > The economic interests behind the atrocities are
barely mentioned;
their
> > implications for women have been totally hidden.
The privatisation
of
> > everything, from oil to water, electricity, etc.,
imposed by the US
as
> soon
> > as it had occupied Iraq, has given powers to
employers they never
had
> > before. Paul Bremer has banned all unions and set
public sector
wages
at
> > $40, less than half the recommended monthly wage
of a sweatshop
worker
in
> > neighbouring Iran. At Najebeeya electricity plant
in Basra, where
women
> > make up 10% of the workforce, "the nursery has
been turned over to
a
> friend
> > of the boss who has made it into a second home for
himself, leaving
> working
> > mothers to work with their children in tow." And
of course there
is no
> > equal pay and women get $15-25 less than men for
doing the same
job.
The
> > same is happening in US occupied Haiti, where the
US has put
sweatshop
> > owners and their friends back in charge.
> >
> > After seven months of relentless organising, the
first conference
of
> > workers' unions and councils in Iraq took place in
Baghdad on 8
December,
> > 2003. After discussion, key issues were decided
upon: a list of
workers'
> > immediate demands, a draft for a new Iraqi Labour
Code and the main
> outlines
> > of its legislature, as well as the election of the
union leadership
> > committee members. The attendees then established
the Workers'
Councils
> and
> > Unions in Iraq - WCUI. Within two days, their
offices were raided
and
> > destroyed by the US army.
> >
> > And what about Saddam Hussein's informers? Former
women
intelligence
> > officers, the same people who handed over lists of
suspected
"prostitutes"
> > (or resistance activists) to security forces
during Saddam's
"faithfulness
> > campaign", are among those retrained by the
occupation. At that
time,
> > hundreds of women were beheaded in public or
strung up outside
their
> homes.
> > What will happen now? We have read that girls as
young as nine who
have
> > been raped have been refused hospital treatment,
and that in Basra
> unveiled
> > female students are being refused entry to
university and even
attacked
> with
> > stones and acid.
> >
> > Women everywhere have a right to know about our
sisters and their
children
> > in Iraq and elsewhere, and we want to know now.
> >
> > 2. THE CONTEXT OF TORTURE IN IRAQ - WHAT THE US
AND UK HAVE DONE
> ELSEWHERE
> >
> > Far from being exceptional, the atrocities we are
seeing must be
put in
> the
> > context of what the US is known to have done in
Vietnam (where it
killed
> > three million people including with napalm and
cluster -
anti-personnel -
> > bombs), and all over Latin America (where it
funded and managed
torturers
> > and paramilitaries, and continues to do right now
in Colombia - all
> trained
> > in the US school for torturers, the infamous
School of the
Americas);
the
> > coup it backed against a democratically elected
government in
Venezuela
> > (2002); (jointly with France) its present
occupation of Haiti; and
the
> > infamous Guantanamo Bay; and what the British did
in Iraq, where
Churchill
> > ordered the gassing of "uncivilised tribes", in
Kenya during Mau
Mau
where
> > rape and other torture were standard, and more
recently where
hundreds
of
> > women were raped by the British army over 30
years, and in Cyprus
where
> the
> > British army is banned from some areas because of
its rape and
murder of
a
> > woman tourist and other violence since - to
mention a few.
> >
> > And what about the north of Ireland, which, we are
told, is where
the
> > British learnt "to behave"? What about the
torture, shootings and
other
> > atrocities they committed there since 1969, in
particular the
> > strip-searching (and manhandling) of women at
Armagh prison by male
guards
> > and soldiers? It took a women's movement to bring
attention to and
halt
> > this sexual assault.
> >
> > Channel Four News (UK) has reported that at least
12,000 people are
being
> > held in US army prisons around the world - in
Middle East
countries,
Diego
> > Garcia (stolen from the expelled Chagossian people
with the help of
the
> > British government), etc. (10 May) We want to
know if there are
any
> women
> > among them, why they are being held, the
conditions in which they
are
> being
> > held, and whether their families have been
notified. And since the
US
> funds
> > and backs in every other way Israel's occupation
in Palestine (and
in
> Israel
> > torture and assassinations are legal), we also
want to know what is
> > happening to Palestinian women and children at the
hands of Israeli
troops
> > and prison guards.
> >
> > Also, we want to know about the treatment of
civilians, beginning
with
> women
> > and children, in that other occupied country,
Haiti, where
thousands
have
> > already been killed either by US troops or by the
gangsters and
drug
lords
> > they have put in power in that persecuted country.
(Let us remind
people
> > that for 200 years, since Haiti's working people,
who were slaves
at the
> > time, liberated themselves by throwing out their
European masters,
Haiti
> has
> > been invaded, occupied, boycotted and in every way
persecuted by
the
> racist
> > US government with the assistance of the racist
French government
whose
> > Napoleon met his first Waterloo in Haiti all those
years ago.) And
we
> want
> > to know about Colombia, where US-funded and
trained government and
> > paramilitaries have been murdering thousands of
civilians,
including
many
> > women, for opposing violence and exploitation.
> >
> > We know that some women Members of the UK
Parliament voted against
this
> war,
> > and some distinguished themselves with their
uncompromising
opposition.
> But
> > most voted for it. We know that only one
congresswoman, Barbara
Lee (a
> > Black woman representing a largely Black
constituency - the sector
of
> people
> > who have been most opposed to war), voted against
the invasion of
Iraq.
> In
> > fact she was the only US legislator who voted
against.
> >
> > 3. ALL WHO ACCEPT US LEADERSHIP SHARE
RESPONSIBILITY
> >
> > - In our view and in the view of increasing
numbers of women and
of
men,
> > what the US does is the responsibility of all
those who accept
their
> > leadership, as Blair's government has done with
such dogged
determination.
> >
> > - What the US has done in Iraqi prisons is an
extension of what
they do
> at
> > home, where two million people, disproportionately
Black and
Latino, are
> > incarcerated and often tortured, not merely by
living under an
unjust,
> > repressive and racist regime, but as defined by
international
standards.
> > The evidence for this is abundant, as is the
evidence that some of
the
> > leading people in this present crisis learnt their
interrogation
> techniques
> > as US prison guards. Women prisoners are raped by
male guards;
over the
> > years, some cases have become famous - usually
when women get
justice by
> > physically defending themselves against their
attackers.
> >
> > - It is an extension of Guantanamo Bay, and of
what the US and UK
are
> doing
> > at home accusing Muslim people of terrorism and
imprisoning them
without
> > charge for an indefinite period of time. To
assume, as the US and
UK
> > government do, that only Muslims will be upset by
torture and
injustice
> > against Muslims is itself a most extraordinary
level of racism,
which
many
> > millions of us are appalled by.
> >
> > - Torture by US troops and mercenaries ("military
contractors") is
an
> > extension of the consistent disregard for human
life in Iraq, as
expressed
> > in depleted uranium and years of sanctions which,
as we all know,
together
> > killed and maimed - especially children.
> >
> > - We must now see the back of the deliberate or
careless
disconnection
of
> > each form of killing anywhere, each treated as a
one-off, an
accident, a
> > mistake, an oversight; rather than at best a
policy of carelessness
about
> > the survival of whole populations. It is time to
put the pieces
together
> > and face with what little concern for humanity the
world is
governed, so
> we
> > can change the society into one which Invests in
Caring and not
Killing.
> >
> > London 12 May 2004
> >






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