Contents
List of Tables / ix
List of Figures / ix
The Chronology of Genocide / x
Preface to the Second Edition / xiii
Preface to the First Edition / xiv
Acknowledgements / xvi
Introduction / xvii
1 The Legacy of War / 1
Preamble / 1
The War / 4
The Targets / 11
The People / 15
The Environment / 20
The Desolation / 27
2 The Chronology of Sanctions / 33
Preamble / 33
The Chronology of Sanctions / 34
The Disarmament Issue / 73
The 706/712/986 Ploy / 98
3 Targeting the Powerless / 105
Preamble / 105
The Ravaged Environment / 109
The Sanctions System / 113
Suffer the Children / 122
Suffer the Women / 131
The Food Weapon / 136
The Health Weapon / 150
Epilogue / 171
4 The Face of Genocide / 174
The Sanctions Option / 175
The League and the United Nations / 184
The US and Sanctions / 187
Law and the Gulf / 194
The Face of Genocide / 205
Epilogue / 211
5 The New Holocaust / 214
Preamble / 214
Slow Extermination / 215
Propaganda and 986 / 227
1990s Genocide / 240
Superpower Isolation / 243
Epilogue / 247
Appendices
1 Security Council Resolutions 660 and 661 / 251
2 EEC Declaration concerning the Iraqi invasion of
Kuwait; and Council Regulation (EEC) No. 2340/90 / 254
3 Security Council Resolution 687 / 259
4 Security Council Resolutions 707 and 715 / 268
5 Security Council Resolutions 706, 712 and 986 / 274
6 Rights of the Child, Note Vcrbale (16 January 1995) from Iraq to UN Centre for Human Rights, Geneva / 284
7 The Impact of the Blockade on Iraq, Note Vcrbale (16 January 1995) from Iraq to UN Centre for Human Rights, Geneva - Extract / 291
8 Malaysian Conference Resolution (May 1994) against Economic Sanctions on Iraq / 300
9 Protocol 1, Addition to the Geneva Conventions, 1977 - Extract / 304
10 Criminal Complaint against the United States by Ramsey Clark (14 November 1996), former Attorney-General of the United States / 310
11 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide / 313
12 Verdict of the International Court for Crimes against Humanity Committed by the UN Security Council on Iraq (October 1996) / 317
13 Sanctions Details in UN Documents (Extracts) - March 1997 to October 1997 / 22
Conclusion / 327
Notes / 328
Bibliography / 346
Index / 348
List of Tables
1.1 Some bombed establishments and power plants with associated environmental damage / 24
1.2 Chemical releases from bombed installations / 26
3.1 Items for Iraq vetoed by the UN Sanctions Committee / 118
3.2 Impact of sanctions on the health of children under 5 / 128
3.3 Food price increases in Iraq caused by one year of sanctions / 140
3.4 Decline in Iraq’s animals / 142
3.5 Inflation of basic food prices (July 1990-November 1993) / 149
3.6 Increase in disease incidence in Iraq (1989-91) / 159
3.7 Increase in disease incidence in Iraq (1989-92) / 160
3.8 Increases in undcr-5 and ovcr-50 mortality as a result of sanctions / 163
3.9 Increase in incidence of some communicable diseases (1989-93) / 169
4.1 Selected pre-First World War examples of economic sanctions / 176
4.2 Countries targeted by US (acting alone) for sanctions / 188
4.3 Countries targeted by US (acting in concert) for sanctions / 189
5.1 Malnutrition, children under five, monthly average / 218
5.2 Food shortages in Iraq, 1995-96 / 219
5.3 Reduction in consumption of basic items / 221
5.4 Deaths resulting from the economic embargo / 222
5.5 Infant deaths from various causes / 222
5.6 Ovcr-50 mortality rates / 223
5.7 Total deaths caused by the economic embargo / 223
List of Figures
3.1 Increases in malnutrition among children in Baghdad / 137
5.1 Chronology of implementation of Resolution 986 / 230
5.2 UN declarations prohibiting food embargoes / 241
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