[Marxism] Trapock press release on Iraqi war deaths

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 10, 2006

CONTACT:  Consumers for Peace, http://www.consumersforpeace.org
Nick Mottern (9149 806 6179);
nickmottern@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

War Crimes Report Shows US Violations of International Law and
Demands Prosecution of US Military and Civilian Leaders

   The violence of the Iraq War, the chaos that has come to Iraq,
can be traced directly to the illegality of the invasion and
occupation of that country and the illegality of the tactics and
weapons being used to maintain the occupation.  "U.S. War Crimes in
Iraq and Mechanisms for Accountability" documents these violations
and calls on us all to demand investigation and prosecution of
violations of international law by military and civilian leaders.
This come on the day when a new Lancet study shows that 655,000
Iraqis have died due to the war.

  The report was prepared by Consumers for Peace.org with the advice
of Karen Parker, noted lawyer in human rights and humanitarian law.
Ms. Parker is President of the San-Francisco-based Association of
Humanitarian Lawyers and Chief Delegate to the United Nations for the
Los Angeles-based International Educational Development/Humanitarian
Law Project (IED/AHL), an accredited non-governmental organization on
the U.N. Secretary-General's list.

 Dahr Jamail, noted independent journalist who spent more than eight
months reporting from occupied Iraq, writes the following about the
report:

  "I cannot endorse strongly enough this report prepared by Karen
Parker regarding U.S. war crimes in Iraq.  Having witnessed much of
what is so well documented in this report, it is a clear and
encompassing indictment of the Bush Administration for the war crimes
they are directly responsible for in Iraq.  Until evidence such as
this begins to see the light of day in a court of law and the
perpetrators brought to justice, the world remains unsafe and
unstable from an administration determined to rule the world.  After
witnessing what they are capable of in Iraq, I have no doubt these
people will not stop in their quest for world domination.  Instead,
they must be stopped.  And the only way to do that is bring the
guilty to justice.  This document will help achieve that goal."

  Kathy Kelly, co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Non-Violence,
three-time nominee for the Noble Peace Prize, who has visited Iraq 28
times in the last 15 years, writes of the report:

  "After spending four days in the fortified and secure Green Zone,
in Iraq, during September 06, former Secretary of State James Baker
III assured that the investigative panel he led had not spent any
time "wringing our hands over what mistakes might or might not have
been created in the past." (NYT, September 20, 2006).  The
"Consumers for Peace" report on war crimes committed in Iraq helps
us understand our responsibility not to wring our hands but rather to
demand accountability from elected representatives by delivering this
report to them and to local media.  How many people killed?  How many
families torn apart?  How many homes destroyed?  How many livelihoods
gone?  How many lives ruined? How many cities sacrificed?  We bear
responsibility to end the war in Iraq, insist on just reparations for
suffering caused, and promote careful, legal scrutiny of the crimes
committed.  This report beckons all who read it to stop collaborating
with illegal, immoral warmongers who recklessly afflict Iraq."

  Neil MacKay, multi-award winning Home Affairs and Investigations
Editor of the Sunday Herald (Scotland), writes:

"What has happened in Iraq is a great sin and a great crime. The
invasion and occupation have stained the concepts of democracy,
freedom and liberty; and disgraced the good name of the people of
both the United States of America and Great Britain. As a journalist
who has investigated the roots of this war, and the on-going horror
of what is happening in Iraq, I fully commend this report to readers.
It is an important reminder of the blood which is on the hands of our
leaders, and the shame that the governments of the UK and the USA
have brought to the British and American people by perpetrating a
criminal war in our name."


The report is being published on the internet by:

Consumers for Peace
http://www.consumersforpeace.org
Traprock Peace Center
http://www.traprockpeace.org
Voices for Creative Nonviolence
http://www.vcnv.org
Uruknet
http://www.uruknet.info
Information Clearing House
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info
Association of Humanitarian Lawyers
http://www.humanlaw.org


Charles Jenks
Chair of Advisory Board
Traprock Peace Center
103 Keets Road
Deerfield, MA 01342
http://www.traprockpeace.org




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