Centre for Research on Globalisation ---> In addition to the mass killings of Iraqi civilians, U.S. forces deliberately committed cultural genocide against Iraqi national heritage, and Iraqi treasures. "Not even the Nazis would have allowed such crimes", wrote the Indian philosopher, Aijaz Ahmad. Ahmed added; "Every single Article of the Geneva Convention and the U.N. Charter was violated, and a whole range of war crimes committed, with impunity. Yet, not a single member of the so-called 'international community' has come forward to say so: not Kofi Annan and his bureaucrats at the U.N., not the leaders of the Franco-German alliance [for political opportunism] or any other member of the Security Council, not the head of any Arab state" was able to whisper a word of resistance.
"The moral bankruptcy of the whole state system of the world is there for all to see. This global complicity is what made the invasion possible in the first place", added Professor Ahmad. Without this "moral bankruptcy", the illegal Occupation of Iraq would have been condemned by every civilised nation in the globe. Sadly, only very few have this moral courage. The invasion was an extension of the 13-years long genocidal sanctions that killed 2 million Iraqis, a third of them children under the age of five.
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