Photos from Iraq More Photos from Iraq, April 1999 I feel that Canada's Prime minister, Mr. Jean Chretien, and Foreign Affairs Minister, Mr. Lloyed Axworthy , have ignored this child's rights. They have known for years that the oil for food program has been totally inadequate. They are still under the mistaken impression that it is a humanitarian gesture to allow a country to sell it's own resources to buy food and medicines. In Iraq, streets run with untreated sewage, and water-treatment facilities lie in ruin.
Hospitals try to function without medicine, without electricity and without equipment.
I met at the market. We're killing 5,000 kids under the age of five every month. Now people say Saddam's killing them, but ultimately, sanctions are killing them, and we shouldn't be supportive of something that causes innocent people to suffer to such a degree. The sanctions regime being imposed on Iraq is a huge injustice being perpetrated by the United Nations at the behest of the United States. Sanctions were imposed on Iraq to punish Iraq for invading Kuwait.