The twenty delegates of the second Iraq Sanctions Challenge have attended an international conference in Baghdad marking the 50th Anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. A follow-up to the May 1998 Iraq Sanctions Challenge, the group also delivered a large quantity of medicine and visited hospitals. More than 1.6 million Iraqis have died from the sanctions during the last eight years. Those who have died have been largely infants and their grandparents.
Economic sanctions kill the most vulnerable in society.
It is our duty to stand up for the truth. To expose the war-makers. To combat the racist propaganda of the Pentagon killing machine. Becker and Sinnott are two of the co-authors of the new book Challenge to Genocide. They have written numerous articles on the U.S.-Iraq confrontation and have lectured frequently at college campuses on Mideast issues.