Tuesday, February 28, 2012

The Never-Ending and Never-Prosecuted Humanitarian Disaster in Iraq | Truthout

The Never-Ending and Never-Prosecuted Humanitarian Disaster in Iraq | Truthout
"We will never accept that history will be rewritten by the invading powers that illegally occupied a sovereign country - an invasion and occupation that the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights' Office has never condemned. "To initiate a war of aggression is essentially an evil thing [...] It is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole," according to the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, which followed World War II. And not once have I seen a word of condemnation from international human rights bodies about the illegality of the Anglo-American invasion. They have excelled in silence. Silence is complicity. And silence kills."