The Scourging of Iraq

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Éditeur : Macmillan Press	Date & Lieu : 1998, London & New York
Préface :	Pages : 364
Traduction :	ISBN : 0-333-74629-5 & 0-3l2-16l82-4
Langue : Anglais	Format : 140x215 mm
Code FIKP : Liv. Eng. Sim. Sco. N° 3307	Thème : Général

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The Scourging of Iraq Geoff Simons Macmillan Press St. Martin’s Press The main purpose of this book is to highlight the continuing and unjustifiable punishment of the Iraqi people through economic sanctions. It rests on the simple principle, enshrined in the Protocol 1 Addition (1977) to the Geneva Convention (1949), that the starvation of civilians as a method of warfare is illegal and ethically indefensible. The book does not represent apology or exculpation for Saddam Hussein (I have charted his bloody rise to power in Iraq: From Sumer to Saddam, 1994). It is important to remember that many of the politicians, business leaders, pundits and journalists who today are keenest to maintain economic sanctions on Iraq are precisely the people who in the 1980s did all they could to build up and sustain the tyrannical Iraqi regime. What is argued here is that it is unjustifiable in both law (Protocol 1; UN General Assembly Resolution 96(1); the UN Genocide Convention; etc.) and natural justice to target helpless men, women and children as a method of overthrowing a national ...

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Geoff Simons

The Scourging of Iraq
Sanctions, Law and Natural Justice

Macmillan Press

Macmillan Press
The Scourging of Iraq
Sanctions, Law and Natural Justice
Second Edition
‘… a shocking record of terrible crimes...
that should shame us all.’ — Noam Chomsky
By Geoff Simons

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover first edition as follows
Simons, G. L. (Geoffrey, Ixslic), 1939—
The scourging of Iraq : sanctions, law and natural justice /
Geoff Simons,
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-312-16182-4

1. Sanctions (International law)
2. Economic sanctions—Iraq.
3. Economic sanctions—Moral and ethical aspects.
4. Persian Gulf War, 1991—Iraq.
5. United Nations—Iraq.
6. United Nations.

Security Council—Resolutions. I. Title.
JXI246.S47 1996
341,5'82'09567—dc20 / 96-33706
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©Geoff Simons 1996, 1998
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Second edition 1998

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Dedication
To the one million Iraqi children killed by US biological warfare through the 1990s and to the hundreds of thousands more that will join them in the months and years ahead