Genocide in Iraq
By: by Abdul Haq al-Ani & Tarik al-Ani ; foreword by Joshua Castellino
Contributors: al-Ani, Tarik
Publisher: Clarity Press, Inc.
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780985335304
Subjects: Crimes against humanity; International status; Foreign relations; Economic sanctions
Description: "Imposing sanctions on Iraq was one of the most heinous of crimes committed in the 20th century. Despite the calamitous destruction resulting from the sanctions, few serious attempts by legal professionals, academics or philosophers have been undertaken to address the full scope of the immorality and illegality of such a criminal and unprecedented mass punishment. Genocide in Iraq offers a comprehensive coverage of Iraq's politics, its building, its destruction through aggression and sanctions, and an analysis of the legality of these sanctions from the point of view of international and human rights laws. It argues that the Security Council itself, member states and the individual relevant members of the governments of that period are guilty of these crimes. More significantly, the book argues that imposing total sanctions is the equivalent of committing genocide. It presents a detailed policy analysis indicating how, under Ba'ath rule, Iraq had risen to become the most progressive and developed Arab nation in the Middle East. It then contrasts that rising nation to the devastated remains left in the aftermath of sanctions - a devastation so dreadful that by the UN's own accounting, some 500,000 child deaths were due to it"--Page [4] of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Iraq's millennia of rich history; title: History 1916 to 2003: monarchy to occupation; title: The Baath pursues the economic development of Iraq; title: The Baath's progressive social and political policies; title: The destruction of Iraq; title: Sanctions and international law; title: The genocide convention and the question of intent; title: The sanctions committee; title: Sanctions as genocide; title: Conclusion.