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The BRussells Tribunal are intellectuals, artists and activists who denounce the logic of permanent war promoted by the American government and its allies, affecting for the time being particularly one region in the world: the Middle East. It started with a people's court against the PNAC and its role in the illegal invasion of Iraq, but continued ever since. It tries to be a bridge between the intellectual resistance in the Arab World and the Western peace movements.      Members of the BRussells Tribunal Committee

 

"I believe that despite the enormous odds which exist, unflinching, unswerving, fierce intellectual determination, as citizens, to define the real truth of our lives and our societies is a crucial obligation which devolves upon us all. It is in fact mandatory. If such a determination is not embodied in our political vision we have no hope of restoring what is so nearly lost to us - the dignity of man."  Harold Pinter, honorary member of the BRussells Tribunal - Nobel Lecture - 07 Dec 2005 (+24 Dec 2008) - Selected Political Writings

 

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* Stop Assassinations and Threats against Academics in Iraq

“ What Happened To Nuclear Physics professor Dr Ismail Khalil Jasim Al-Tikriti ?”

Statement of The BRussells Tribunal Committee (26 April 2009)

The assassinations and threats against academics in Iraq continue unabated despite optimistic press reports on levels of violence falling dramatically and  pompous declarations of the Iraqi puppet government about “reconciliation”.

A prominent Nuclear Physics professor, Dr Ismail Khalil Jasim Al-Tikriti, has disappeared four months ago, in the Jadiriya/ Karada district in Baghdad. He had been invited by The Iraqi Higher Education Ministry to visit Iraq from Lybia. They promised to assign him as the president of Salah Al-Din University in Tikrit. After his arrival in Baghdad and meeting with officials in the Ministry of Higher Education, he visited his house in the Jadiriya area to take his books, researches and belongings. That was the last time he has been seen since. His family doesn't know what to do and is afraid to accuse anybody. They think that he has been kidnapped and may have been killed by the militias in the area.

The BRussells Tribunal issues an urgent call for any information concerning Dr Ismail Khalil Jasim Al-Tikriti.  We also want to alarm the academics who are being invited to return to be aware of such criminal acts.

 

* What Future For Iraq?

Events organized and filmed by the BRussells Tribunal

18-20 March 2009

 

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 European Parliament - Belgian Parliament -  Les Halles de Schaerbeek - Beursschouwburg

 

* PRESS RELEASE - 20 March

* A forgotten humanitarian disaster (Lieven De Cauter, 21 March 2009)

* Let the numbers speak (Souad Al-Azzawi 26 March 2009)

* Dr. Omar Al Kubaisy: Speech in the European Parliament (Brussels 18 March 2009)

* Abdul Ilah Albayaty: Speech in the European Parliament (Brussels 18 March 2009)

* Dr. Faleh Al Khayat: Speech in the European Parliament (Brussels 18 March 2009)

 

Related reports the mainstream media fail to focus on:

* Iraq - Women Will Association (Hana Ibrahim, Tahrir Swift)

* Iraq - women in war (ICRC 05 March 2009)

* Iraqi women talk about their greatest concerns and challenges (OXFAM 10 March 2009)

* Deterioration of Iraqi Women's Rights and Living Conditions Under Occupation [PDF] (Dr. Souad N. Al-Azzawi - 19 Dec 2007)

* Statement on Kurdish expansion plans [PDF] (04 April 2009)

 

* * IRAQ IN FIGURES [PDF] (Ikraam Center For Human Rights)

* * 5 part video of the World Tribunal on Iraq culminating session - Istanbul 23 - 27 June 2005

 

* KEEPING THE SCORES OF A BRUTAL OCCUPATION

* The BRussells Tribunal partial list of 423 Iraqi academics murdered under US occupation (updated 16 June2009) -   *Background articles

[See this List as PDF file]

Our campaign to save Iraq's academics - Sign the petition online

* The BRussells Tribunal partial list of 311 Iraqi and 30 non-Iraqi media professionals who died under US occupation (updated 08 June2009) -  *Background articles

[See this List as PDF File]

 

* ESSENTIAL STUDIES published by the BRussells Tribunal

* Torture in Iraqi Prisons - Appeal for Investigation - Dar Babel Publishers - 19 January 2009. [PDF]

* Crimes of the Century: Occupation & Contaminating Iraq with Depleted Uranium - Dr. Souad N. Al-Azzawi -15 June 2008.

* Deterioration of Iraqi Women's Rights and Living Conditions Under Occupation [PDF] - A survey by Dr. Souad N. Al-Azzawi - 19 Dec 2007 - Mujer iraquí y ocupación - Traducido del inglés para IraqSolidaridad por Consuelo Delgado [HTML]

* The effects of the American use of prohibited weapons on the health condition in Fallujah [PDF] - MHRI 10 Dec 2007

* US Genocide In Iraq [PDF] - Dr. Ian Douglas -  July 2007 | Arabic [PDF]:  الولايات المتحدة في العراق جريمة إبادة جماعية

*  Iraq’s Lost Generation: Impact and Implications [PDF] Dr Ismail Jalili's Report to the House of Lords Commission on Iraq - 17 June 2007

* Research on Death Squads in  Iraq [PDF] Report of  Monitoring of Human Rights in Iraq Network (MHRI)  - Dec 2006

* Depleted Uranium Radioactive Contamination In Iraq [PDF]- Dr. Souad N. Al-Azzawi -  Aug 2006 - [HTML]

* Iraqi Hospitals Ailing Under Occupation [PDF]- Dahr Jamail  - June 2005

- More essential PDF Dossiers. Click here -

 

* Click here to read Daily News from Uruknet, AMSI, CLG, ICH, Globalresearch...

 

 

* Peace in Iraq is an option

Le Feyt Declaration  -  Statement of the International Anti-Occupation Network (15 Sept 2008)

The US occupation of Iraq is illegal and cannot be made legal. All that has derived from the occupation is illegal and illegitimate and cannot gain legitimacy. These facts are incontrovertible. What are their consequences? 

Peace, stability and democracy in Iraq are impossible under occupation. Foreign occupation is opposed by nature to the interests of the occupied people, as proven by the six million Iraqis displaced both inside and outside Iraq, the planned assassination of Iraqi academics and professionals and the destruction of their culture, and the more than one million killed. READ the declaration.

International figures who join us in our commitment to a true end to the occupation and to a lasting, sustainable peace in Iraq.

 

Please express your solidarity with this campaign, click here to ENDORSE online.

 

* Denis Halliday, Hans von Sponeck: Two former UN humanitarian coordinators for IRAQ appeal for the release of former deputy prime minister of Iraq Tariq Aziz (02 January 2007)    [Spanish version]

*  Urgent alert by The BRussells Tribunal Committee: Imminent Threat to Iraqi Lawyer Badee Izzat Aref (7 April 2007)

* Popcorn and champagne: The Trial of Tariq Aziz  (Gabriele Zamparini 06 May 2008)

* Tariq Aziz jailed in 'very bad' conditions: son (17 Sept 2008)

* Renewed call for the release of  former deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz (Denis Halliday and Hans von Sponeck, 2008)

* “My father’s condition is worsening by the day” - An urgent call to help Tariq Aziz (Hans von Sponeck, 09 May 2009)

 

* Bush claims victory, he gets shoes

 

Demand for the immediate release of Muntadher Al-Zaidi

Statement by The BRussells Tribunal Committee (15 December 2008)

In one magnificent act, Muntadher Al-Zaidi, an Iraqi journalist with Al-Baghdadiya television, epitomized the truth of the defeat of the United States in Iraq and lifted the spirit of resistance within the hearts of all Arabs, matching that of the Iraqi people who continue to resist imperialism and colonialism and who refuse humiliation.

It is Bush who is humiliated, and from it he cannot recover. He had snuck into Iraq, unannounced, to sign an illegal treaty with his puppet stooge aimed at institutionalizing the US occupation. Two flying shoes destroyed the façade upon which he and his cronies claim victory in Iraq. [Further reading] - [FRANCAIS]

 

Read also: A lantern, a red rag and a pair of shoes (Dirk Adriaensens, 19 Dec 2008, with a foreword of  Manuel Talens)

 

 

No Belgian F16 warplanes for Afghanistan.

Sign the petition in Dutch | signez en français

 

* Messages to the People - Berichten aan de bevolking - Avis à la population

 

95  Statements commemorating five years of war in Iraq (10 March 2008) - [PDF: click here]

 

Abdul Ilah Al-Bayaty, Tariq Ali, Harold Pinter, Eduardo Galeano, Dahr Jamail, Henning Mankell, Michael Parenti, Felicity Arbuthnot, Hans von Sponeck, Haifa Zangana, Nawal El Saadawi, CEOSI a.o.

 

 * IRAQI OIL FOR IRAQI REFUGEES - Sign the petition now!

More than 4.5 million Iraqis — a fifth of the population — have been displaced inside and outside their country due to the sectarian policies of the occupation and the governments it has installed since the illegal invasion of Iraq in 2003.

The international community, the occupation powers, and the government in Iraq are legally required to support and protect Iraqi refugees.

Iraqi refugees are Iraqi citizens who have a full right to live in dignity, a right to benefit equally from national resources, and a right to return to their homes.

The UN Security Council, as the highest body of the UN, has the power and legal duty to ensure that the needs of Iraqi refugees are met by passing a resolution to require that the Iraqi state allocate proportionate revenue to responsible agencies and hosting countries.

* Read also: Oil for Iraqi citizens  (Hana Al Bayaty, 10 January 2008)  Olie voor de Iraakse burgers

 

* READ MORE ABOUT  

Our campaign to save Iraq's academics. Sign the petition online   Partial list of 423 Iraqi academics murdered under US occupation   |   The Endangered Iraqi journalists: Partial list of 311 Iraqi and 30 non-Iraqi media professionals died under US occupation   |  The Children of Iraq   |  Iraq: the largest humanitarian crisis on the planet   |  Christians in Iraq face liquidation   |  Iraqi refugees  |  Petition  The situation of Iraqi Healthworkers   |  Torture and Prison Abuse in Iraq   |  Iraqi Women Under Occupation   |  The looting of Iraq's Cultural Heritage   |  Comments on the Lancet Survey and other mortality studies   |   Big Oil's Occupation of Iraq   |  The Salvador Option and Death Squads   |  Israeli Involvement in the Occupation of Iraq   |  Military Bases   |  Voices of Resistance   |  Remembering Falluja   |  The use of WMD by the US army   |  The Events in Samarra   |  The Iraqi Constitution   |  The Illegal trial and verdict of Saddam Hussein   |  Lieutenant Watada's War Against the War   |  Statements and articles of the BRussells Tribunal on Lebanon   |  'New Middle East' Borders   |  Opinion Polls   |   The BRussells Tribunal PDF Dossiers   |   MAPS   |   Breaking reports & Articles   |  De zaak Bahar Kimyongur   |  And even more background information...   |  Support the Palestinian Youth & Children Relief Centre in Shatila refugee camp   |

 

The war is costing $720 million a day or $500,000 a minute. Defund the war in Iraq.
Refund human needs in Iraq and the rest of the world. Watch this 2 min. video.

 

* IRAQI KILLING FIELDS :  the largest humanitarian crisis on the planet - ©opyright U$A™

 

* Partial list of 423 Iraqi academics murdered under US occupation (updated 16 June 2009) -

[See this List as PDF file]

* Partial list of 311 Iraqi and 30 non-Iraqi media professionals who died under US occupation (updated 08 June 2009) - Background articles

[See this List as PDF File]

 

* 2,000 Iraqi physicians have been murdered under US occupation (11 April 2006)

* Hundreds of legal workers have left the country. At least 210 lawyers and judges killed since the US-led invasion in 2003, in addition to dozens injured in attacks against them. (30 April 2007)

 

* Based on studies done by local NGOs, at least 15,000 Iraqis have disappeared in the past four years of US occupation (18 April 2007)

 

* Iraq’s child mortality rate has increased by a staggering 150 percent since 1990. Some 122,000 Iraqi children died in 2005 before reaching their fifth birthday. More than half of these deaths were among newborn babies in the first month of life  (08 May 2007)

 

* only 50 percent of primary school-age children are attending class, down from 80 percent in 2005. Approximately 1,500 children are known to be held in detention facilities. (Radhika Coomaraswamy, U.N. special representative of the secretary-general for children and armed conflict, 25 April 2008)

 

* Up to 75 percent of Iraq's doctors, pharmacists and nurses have left their jobs since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. More than half of those have emigrated (Medact 16 Jan 2008)

* There are five million Iraqi orphans as reported by official government statistics, urging the government, parliament, and NGOs to be in constant contact with Iraq's parentless children. (18 Dec 2007)

* Narmeen Othman, Iraq’s acting minister for women’s affairs, put the number of Iraqi widows as high as 2 million in a country of 27 million people. (31 Jan 2008)

 

* 50,000 Iraqi refugees forced into prostitution (24 June 2007)

 

* Years of war, current insecurity take toll on environment (07 June 2007) - Insecurity and lack of funds prevent cleansing of polluted sites (19 April 2007)

 

* 8.000.000 Iraqis require immediate emergency aid, with nearly half of the population living in absolute poverty.

* 4.000.000 people are lacking food and in dire need of different types of humanitarian assistance.

* Only 60% of the 4.000.000 people who depend on food assistance have access to rations from the public distribution system, down from 96% in 2004.

* The number of Iraqis without access to adequate water supplies has risen from 50% to 70% since 2003.

* 80% of people in Iraq do not have safe access to effective sanitation.

* Child malnutrition rates have risen from 19% before the US-led invasion in 2003 to 28% currently.

(Oxfam report 29 July 2007)

 

* The war is costing $720 million a day or $500,000 a minute. The money spent on one day of the Iraq war could buy homes for almost 6,500 families or health care for 423,529 children, or could outfit 1.27 million homes with renewable electricity. (AFSC 21 Sep 2007)

 

* More than 3.000.000 Iraqi refugees and 2.778.305 internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Iraq. In Jordan: 700.000-750.000 - In Syria: 1.500.000-2.000.000 - In Egypt: 150.000 - In Iran: 100.000 persons - In Lebanon: 40.000 - In the Gulf States: 200.000 - In Turkey: 10.000 - In the rest of the world: no estimates available. (IRCO 01 July 2007)

* Look at Iraq today: democracy and human rights American style (06 June 2007)

* Iraqi Red Crescent Organization: Report On IDP’s In Iraq - Update 31 May 2007  [PDF] 26 pages - June 2007

* Statistics on Refugees (Updated September 2007)

* Comments on the Lancet Survey and other mortality studies (Updated 02 June 2008)

* The effects of the American use of prohibited weapons on the health condition in Fallujah (10 Dec 2007)

* Christians in Iraq face liquidation (Sept - Oct 2008)

 


 * Statement of the BRussells Tribunal: US illegality in Iraq: Where is the limit? (12 March 2006)

 

* BRussells Tribunal & CEOSI CAMPAIGN: "Save Iraq's Academics"

* 10.000 signatories of petition to save Iraq's academics. Sign online now

* Partial list of murdered Iraqi Academics

*  Principal endorsers of this campaign: Noam Chomsky, Tony Benn, Dario Fo, John Coetzee, Harold Pinter, Eduardo Galeano, Howard Zinn, Michael Parenti, Denis Halliday, Hans von Sponeck, Bianca Jagger, Naomi Klein, Susan George, John Pilger, Tonio Negri and many others.....

* Madrid International Seminar - Final Resolution (April 2006)

* The Jalili Report  [PDF] (02 May 2006) - The Jalili Report [HTML] (Sarah Meyer)

* Articles and background information

* Iraqi academics in the killing zone, Dirk Adriaensens (02 Feb 2006)

* Iraq’s education system on the verge of collapse (Dirk Adriaensens, 18 April 2007)

* Questionnaires for families of assassinated or threatened Iraqi academics

* Call for assistance in documenting and registering assassinated Iraqi academics (08 Dec 2006) - [Arabic]

* Assassinated Iraqi academics: Frequently Asked Questions

Press release * Action Needed Over Detention of Iraqi Education Ministry Officials. Unknown numbers murdered, dozen still illegally held (BRussells Tribunal 22 Nov 2006)

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* Study Claims Iraq's 'Excess' Death Toll Has Reached 655,000

Mortality after the 2003 invasion of Iraq: a cross-sectional cluster sample survey by Iraqi physicians and overseen by epidemiologists at Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health, published in The Lancet (11 Oct 2006)  [PDF]

Read the Comments on the Lancet Study and other Mortality Surveys

* Medics beg for help as Iraqis die needlessly (The Independent, 20 Oct 2006)

*  The Collapse of Iraq's Health Care Services (Counterpunch, 16 Oct 2006)

* Four years into the occupation: No health for Iraq (Dr. Bert De Belder, 20 March 2007)

 

* ONLY RESISTANCE IS LEGAL

(Hana and Abdul Ilah Albayaty, Ian Douglas - BRussells Tribunal Committee, 05 Oct 2006)  

 [Français] - [Arabic] - [Spanish]

 

"They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poor… They ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they hail as the construction of empire. And when in their wake nothing remains but a desert, they call that peace." Cornelius Tacitus, De Vita Gnæi Julii Agricolæ cap. xxx (98 CE) in the Loeb Library ed., vol. 35, p. 80 (S.H. transl.)

 

* What is the future of the Iraqi oil? (Saadallah Al-Fathi 11 June 2009)

* Index on War in Pakistan, May 2009 (Sarah Meyer, 01 June2009)

* Obama’s Iraq: NO ‘CHANGE’ (Sarah Meyer, 10 April 2009) - Updated 20 May 2009

* Abdul Ilah Albayaty: Speech in the European Parliament (18 March 2009)

*  Dr. Omar Al Kubaisy: Speech in the European Parliament (Brussels 18 March 2009)

* Will Economic Crisis Lead To A Police State World ? (Sarah Meyer, 30 March2009)

* Let the numbers speak (Souad Al-Azzawi 26 March 2009)

* A forgotten humanitarian disaster (Lieven De Cauter, 21 March 2009)

* The lessons of local elections in Iraq (Abdul Ilah Al Bayaty, February 2009)

* Final declaration of the Beirut International Forum To Support the Peoples’ Anti-Imperialist Resistance (Beirut 16 - 18 Jan 2009)

* Gaza Aggression Timeline (Articles by Stephen Lendman,  Jan 2009)

* Torture in Iraqi Prisons - Appeal for Investigation (Dar Babel Publishers, 19 January 2009) [PDF]

* Index on Afghanistan, December 2008 Timeline: “Graveyard of Empires” (Sarah Meyer, 04 Jan 2009)

* A lantern, a red rag and a pair of shoes (Dirk Adriaensens, 19 Dec 2008)

* Who Can Forgive the Crime of using Depleted Uranium Against Iraq and Humanity (Dr Haithem Alshaibani, December 2008)

* Victory is the patience of an hour (Abdul Ilah Al Bayaty, 01 Dec 2008)

* Much ado about nothing (Abdul Ilah Al Bayaty, 20 Nov 2008)

* Why Washington’s surge in Iraq failed (Abdul Ilah Al Bayaty, 19 Nov 2008)

* Appeal to the Journalist Organisations: Please fulfil your duties towards your Iraqi colleagues (Dirk Adriaensens, 08 Nov 2008) - [Spanish]

* François Houtart: Speech at the General Assembly of the United Nations (30 Oct 2008)

* Index on Economics and Peril in Afghanistan, October 2008 (Sarah Meyer, 29 Oct 2008)

* Index on Pakistan - October 2008 (Sarah Meyer, 26 Oct 2008)

* Iraq in the Times of Cholera…and Occupation (Sabah Ali, 17 Oct 2008)

* Response to Thomas Friedman's article "Dear Iraqi Friends" (Ghazwan Al Mukhtar, 28 Sept 2008)

* Index on Afghanistan and Pakistan - Murder & Security, Aug/Sept. ’08 (Sarah Meyer, 22 Sept 2008)

* State-Sanctioned Paramilitary Terror in Basra Under British Occupation (Max Fuller, 08 Aug 2008)

*  An assessment of the conditions in the Kurdish part of Iraq  (Kamal Majid, 23 July 2008)

* The Bush- Maliki Convention is a proof of defeat (Abdul Ilah Al Bayaty, 13 July 2008)

* The War Against Christianity (Hussein Al-Alak, 25 April 2008)

* The Battle For Basra Timeline: Footsteps to U.S. War in Iran? (Sarah Meyer, 08 April 2008)

*  Oil for Iraqi citizens (Hana Al Bayaty, 10 January 2008)

* The illegal war and occupation of Iraq - Turkmens of Iraq (Hassan Aydinli, 15 Dec 2007)

*  Iraq is Unbreakable. No partition. (Articles & statements)

* The betrayal of Iraq’s media professionals (Dirk Adriaensens, 29 September 2007)

* Security Company Death Squads Timeline (Dirk Adriaensens & Sarah Meyer, 25 September 2007)

* Between Dealers and Death Squads (Hussein Al-Alak, 10 Sept 2007)

 * Why Bush can get away with attacking Iran (Jean Bricmont, 04 Sept 2007)

* Iraq Oil: The Vultures are Waiting (Sarah Meyer, 03 Sept 2007)

*  Reply to Phyllis Bennis: The Iraqi Resistance is just and should be supported (Kosta Harlan, 11 Aug 2007)

 * Iraq’s Lost Generation: Impact and Implications [PDF] Dr Ismail Jalili's Report to the House of Lords Commission on Iraq - 17 June 2007

* Humanitarian suffering deepens in besieged Iraqi city of Samarra (Dr. Salam Ismael, 16 May 2007)

* Terrorizing a Nation into Homelessness: Who is Responsible? (Eman A. Khammas, 05 May 2007)

* Baghdad Segregation Walls: Protecting whom? (Eman A. Khammas, 30 April 2007)

* Who’s Counting the Dead? (Hussein Al-alak,30 April 2007) 

* Ghettoizing Baghdad (Felicity Arbuthnot,  25 April 2007)

* Iraq’s education system on the verge of collapse (Dirk Adriaensens, 18 April 2007)

* The Ethnic Cleansing of Turkmens  Continues in Tel Afer (Merry Fitzgerald, 04 April 2007)

* Tel Afer (Merry Fitzgerald, 27 March 2007)

* Four years into the occupation: No health for Iraq (Dr. Bert De Belder, 20 March 2007)

*  Strangers in our lands after four years of American “liberation” (Dr Salam Ismael, 18 March 2007)

* At least 78 media professionals killed in Iraq in 2006 (Dirk Adriaensens, 20 Feb 2007)

* Iraqi Resistance: building peace through defeating Aggression (Said Al Mousawi, Kuala Lumpur 05 Feb 2007)

* Iraq Sanctions: What Options Did the UN Security Council Have? (Hans von Sponeck, 2006)

* A Testimony Of An Iraqi Academic (Nov 2006)

* University Professors in Iraq and Death Anxiety ( Prof. Faris K. O. Nadhmi Oct 2006)

* The Myth of the “Anfal Genocide” (David Hungerford, October 2006)

* On the American steps - Corruption and Militias Twins turn Iraq in a "free fraud zone"  (10 Sept 2006)

* Depleted Uranium Radioactive Contamination In Iraq: An Overview (Dr. Souad N. Al-Azzawi 31 Aug 2006)

* The new Arab world (Hana Abdul Ilah Al Bayaty, 20 Aug 2006)

* The assault on Adhamiya (Inge Van De Merlen, 24 June 2006)

* SOS Ramadi (Inge Van De Merlen, 18 June 2006)

* Haditha: River Gate… to Hell (06 Nov 2005)

* exclusive pictures of the urbicide in Al Qaim (18 Dec 2005)

* Al Qaim October Massacre: Indiscriminate Killing Zone  (05 Nov 2005)

* Iraqi Doctors Beaten and Arrested in Haditha Hospital (30 Oct 2005)

* Letter to Amnesty International on the Iraqi Constitution (English - ESP - FR - NL - IT - Deutsch) (Oct. 07 2005)

* Reflections on political parties, the anti-war movement, the BRussells Tribunal and WSF (Les Skeates, 16 Feb 2006)

The BRussells Tribunal publishes a wide range of analyses and opinions. All texts published by the BRussells Tribunal reflect only the view of the author, unless indicated otherwise.

 

action alert  CAMPAIGN:  Stop violations of the right to health care in Iraq!

    * Solidarity call with the plight of Iraqi health workers  [ English - NL - FR - ESP ]

 * Sign the Statement * |  * List of Signatories *

 

* Jean-Paul Sartre: On Genocide (1967)

* Breaking reports and articles about Iraq

* Selected writings of members of the BRussells Tribunal

 

World Tribunal on Iraq
 23-27 June 2005 - Istanbul:  culminating session -

Declaration of the Jury of Conscience - [English] - [Français]

* Closing Speech by Arundhati Roy - June 27 2005

* 5 part video of the Istanbul culminating session

 

 

 

World Tribunal on Iraq: Making the Case Against War (Paperback)

 

February 20, 2005

President Bush, the world holds you accountable !

Photo & press gallery of the BRussells Tribunal action

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May 17, 2005

BUSH and BLAIR are called to Justice around the World.

WTI representatives deliver Law Summon to Bush.

 

 

 

 

The BRussells Tribunal was a hearing committee composed of academics, intellectuals and artists in the tradition of the Russell Tribunal, set up in 1967 to investigate war crimes committed during the Vietnam War. The hearing was scheduled for 14-17th April 2004 at The Beursschouwburg and Les Halles in Brussels. It was presided by Professor François Houtart, who participated in the Bertrand Russell War Crimes Tribunal on US Crimes in Vietnam in 1967, who is one of the founding fathers of the World Social Forum in Porto Allegre, and who currently is a senior adviser to the President of the United Nations General Assembly Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann. The Tribunal was directed against the war in Iraq and the Imperial war policies of the Bush II administration. Its main focus was the ‘Project for the New American Century’, the think tank behind this war, in particular three of the co-signatories of the mission statement: Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney and Paul Wolfowitz, as they are the physical link between the discourse and the brutal practice of the New Imperial World Order as designed by PNAC. Read more...

 "Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators. Your wealth has been stripped of you by unjust men ... The government of Iraq , and the future of your country, will soon belong to you. ... We will end a brutal regime ... so that Iraqis can live in security.”
General F. S. Maude, commander of the British forces, to the people of Mesopotamia , 1917

The BRussells Tribunal: Conclusions of the commission (Brussels, 17 April 2004)

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* The formal presentation of the conclusions of the BRussels Tribunal was followed by an energetic debate between the public and the members of the commission. Read edited extracts from responses by Samir Amin and Dennis Halliday to questions raised from the floor

 

* Reflections on the BRussells Tribunal, by Tony Simpson, Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation

Overview BRussells Tribunal on Indymedia - Read Also: The Ones Who Say NO 

 

 

 

 

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The Committee of the BRussells Tribunal:

Abdul Ilah Al-Bayaty (Writer - Iraq / France)
Abdul Wahab Al Obeidi (Freedom Voice Society for Human Rights - Baghdad / Iraq)
Ahmed Al-Habbabi (Academic - Iraq)
Ahmed Bouda (President Radio Al Manar - Belgium)
Ahmed Manai (Former expert with the UN, Former President of Tlaxcala, President of the Tunisian Institute of International Relations - Tunesia)
Amal Al-Khedairy (Expert on Iraqi History, Culture, Archeology Arts and Crafts - Iraq)
Amir Al Ani (Sociologist - Iraq / France)
Amy Bartholomew (Law professor - Canada)
Anne Montgomery RSCJ (Christan Peacemaker Teams - USA)
Anne Morelli (Professeur d’histoire à l’U.L.B, Author - Belgium)
Bernard Genet (Comaguer, Anti-war Committee Marseille - France)
Bert De Belder (Coordinator Intal  & Medical Aid For The Third World - Belgium)
Brendan Smith (Editor, writer, lawyer, co-founder of War Crimes Watch - USA)
Carla Goffi (MCP - Mouvement Chrétien Pour La Paix - Belgium)
Carlos Varea (Coordinator of SCOSI - Spanish Campaign against Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq - Spain)
Cecile Harnie (Former senator Belgian Parliament - Trade Unions activist)
Charles Jenks (Chair of Advisory Board and Web Manager, Traprock Peace Center, Deerfield MA - USA)
Christina Abraham (Civil Rights Director - Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)-Illinois - USA)
Colette Moulaert (Medical Aid For The Third World - Belgium)
Corinne Kumar (Secretary General of El Taller International - Tunesia / India)
Curtis F.J. Doebbler (International Human Rights Lawyer - USA)
Cynthia McKinney (Former member of the House of Representatives for the 4th District of Georgia - USA)
Dahlia Wasfi M.D. (Anti-war activist, speaker, Global Exchange - Iraq / USA)
Dahr Jamail (Journalist - USA)
David Miller (Professor of Sociology at Strathclyde University, co-founder of Spinwatch - UK)
David Rovics (Songwriter, musical voice of the progressive movement in the US - USA)
David Swanson (Co-Founder AfterDowningStreet coalition - USA)
Denis Halliday (Former UN Assistant Secretary General & United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq 1997-98 - Ireland)
Dennis Brutus (Professor emeritus dept. of africana studies univ. of pittsburgh - USA)
Diana Johnstone (Author, journalist - France / USA)
Dirk Adriaensens (coordinator SOS Iraq)
Dirk Tuypens (Actor - Belgium)
Eduardo Galeano (Essayist, journalist, historian, and activist - Uruguay)
Edward S. Herman (Professor Emeritus of Finance, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania - USA)
Elias Davidsson (Musician, Composer & Activist - Iceland)
Eman Ahmed Khammas (Former co-director of Occupation Watch - Journalist - translator - Iraq)
Fadhil Al Bedrani (journalist - Iraq) 
Dr. Faleh H.M. Al Khayat (Oil expert - Iraq / Jordan)
Felicity Arbuthnot   (Journalist - UK)   
Fouad Elhage (Editor in Chief, Al-Moharer - Iraq / Australia) 
Francis A. Boyle (Professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law - USA)
François Houtart (Director of the Tricontinental Center - Cetri)
Frank Vercruyssen (Actor, TG Stan - Belgium )
Frans Dumortier / Charles Ducal (Poet - Belgium)
Geert Van Moorter (Medical Aid For The Third World - Belgium)
Ghali Hassan (Science and Mathematics Education Centre, Curtin University - Perth, Australia)
Ghazwan Al-Mukhtar (Engineer - Iraq)
Gideon Polya (retired senior biochemist, author: biochemical scientific publications and global avoidable mortality - Australia)  
Gilad Atzmon (Jazz musician, composer and author - UK)
Haifa Zangana (Novelist - Iraq / UK)
Hana Al Bayaty (filmmaker / journalist - Iraq / Egypt / France)
Hana Ibrahim (Writer and Journalist, Chair of Women's Will Organisation - Iraq)
Hans von Sponeck (Former UN Assistant Secretary General & United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq 1998-2000 - Germany)
Harold Pinter (Author, Nobel Prize in Literature 2005 - UK)
Herman De Ley (Em. Prof. Ghent University, Ex-director of Centre for Islam in Europe - Belgium) 
Hisham Bustani (writer and activist. Founding member of the Resistant Arab People's Alliance , member of the Jordanian Higher Executive Committee for Resisting Normalization with Israel, member of the executive board of the Socialist Thought Forum - Jordan)
Howard Zinn (Professor, writer, educator, and leader in nonviolent social protest - USA)
Hugo Wanner (VZW Netwerk Vlaanderen)
Hussein Al-Alak (Iraq Solidarity Campaign - UK)
Ian Douglas (Visiting Professor, Political Science Department, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine - UK)
Imad Khadduri (Nuclear scientist - Iraq / Canada)
Immanuel Wallerstein (Senior Research Scholar, Yale University, USA)
Inge Van De Merlen
Ismail Kaidar Jalili (Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, Chair and Secretary General of National Association of British Arabs (NABA) Past President of Iraqi Medical Association UK  and of the British Arab Medical Association and existing Executive Council Member of the latter - Iraq / UK)
Jaime Ballesteros (Presidente OSPAAAL - Spain)
James E. Jennings, PH.D. (President , Conscience International, Inc., a humanitarian aid and human rights organization working primarily in the Middle East; and Executive Director, US Academics, a group of university professors dedicated to dialogue among civilizations - USA)
Jan Fermon (Lawyer of  Court case against General Tommy Franks in Brussels, Progress Lawyers Network - Belgium)
Jean Bricmont (scientist, specialist in theoretical physics, U.C. Louvain-La-Neuve)
Jeffrey Blankfort (Former editor of the Middle East Labor Bulletin and currently hosts radio programs - USA)
Jennifer Van Bergen (journalist, author writing about civil liberties, human rights and international law - USA)
Jim Harding (Dr., Past Director and retired Professor, School of Human Justice, University of Regina, Canada)
Joachim Guilliard (Journalist, Anti-war movement - Germany)
John Catalinotto (International Action Center - USA)
John Pilger (Author, journalist and documentary film-maker - Australia / UK)
John Saxe-Fernández (Professor of political science, National Autonomous University - México)
Jos Hennes (EPO Publishers - Belgium)
José Reinaldo Carvalho | Socorro Gomes (Cebrapaz -  Centre Brésilien Pour la Solidarité avec les Peuples et la Lutte pour la Paix - Brazil)
José Saramago (Author, Nobel Prize in Literature 1998 - Portugal)
Karen Parker (Attorney , Association of Humanitarian Lawyers, partners of the BRussells Tribunal - USA)
Laith Al Saud (journalist, college lecturer in social sciences - Iraq / USA)
Larry Everest (Author / Journalist, Anti-war movement- USA)
Lieven De Cauter (philosopher, K.U. Leuven / Rits)
Lucas Catherine (Author - Belgium)
Ludo De Brabander (Vrede - Belgium)
Luk Brusselaers (Coordinator SOS Children Iraq Holland - The Netherlands)
Manuel Raposo (Anti-war movement - Portugal)
Manuel Talens (writer, member of Cubadebate, Rebelión and Tlaxcala, Spain)
Margarita Papandreou (Former First Lady of Greece, Peace activist and honorary president of Center for Research and Action on Peace  - Greece)
Marion Kuepker (Gewaltfreie Aktion Atomwaffen Abschaffen  / Uranium Weapons conference organiser - Germany)
Max Fuller (Author of ‘For Iraq, the Salvador Option Become Reality’ and 'Crying Wolf, deaths squads in Iraq' - UK)
Michael Mandel (Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University - Canada)
Michael Parenti (Author - USA)
Michel Chossudovsky (Professor of Economics at the University of Ottawa, founder of Centre for Research on Globalisation - Canada)
Mohammed Ali Hassan (Author, former diplomat - Ethiopia / Belgium)
Mohammed Aref  (Science writer - Iraq / UK)
Muhamad Tareq Al-Deraji (Director of Monitoring net of human rights in Iraq - Executive Director of Studies Center of human rights and Democracy in Fallujah)
Mundher Al-Adhami (Research Fellow at Kings College London - Iraq / UK)
Nadia McCaffrey (Gold Star Families Speak Out / Military Families Speak Out - USA)
Nermeen Al-Mufti (Former co-director of Occupation Watch  - Journalist - Iraq)
Niloufer Bhagwat (Vice President of Indian Lawyers Association - Mumbai / India)
Nusrat Chagtai (Solicitor, Public Interest Lawyers - UK)
Dr. Omar K. Al-Kubaissi (Cardiologist - Iraq / Jordan)
Paola Manduca (Prof. Genetics, Anti-war movement - Italy)
Patrick Deboosere (demographer, VUB)
Paul Vanden Bavière (Former journalist De Standaard, publicist and editor of webzine Uitpers - Belgium)
Peter Algoet (Humanistisch Verbond - Belgium)
Pierre Galand (Senator Belgian Parliament, university lecturer, ex Secretary General Oxfam-Belgium, Président de l'Association belgo-palestinienne, president of the World Organisation against Torture - Europe, Président de l'Association Belge des Amis du Monde diplomatique - Belgium)
Pierre Klein (Professor International Law, U.L. Bruxelles)
Pol De Vos (Tropical Institute Antwerp / Stop USA - Belgium)
Rafil Dhafir (imprisoned in the USA, sentenced to 22 years as a result of sending food and medical supplies to Iraq during the Sanctions)
Rashad Salim (Visual Artist, cultural activist/researcher and writer - International Network For Contemporary Iraqi Artists - Iraq / UK)
Rudy Demeyer (11.11.11 - Belgium)
Saad Jawad (professor of political science at Baghdad University,  head of Iraq's University Professors Association - Iraq)
Sabah Al-Mukhtar (President of the Arab Lawyers Association - Iraq / UK)
Salam Al Jubourie (Free lance Journalist - Iraq) 
Salam T. Ismael (General secretary of Doctors For Iraq Society - Iraq)
Sami Ramadani (Senior lecturer in sociology at London Metropolitan University - Iraq / UK)
Sami Rasouli (Muslim Peacemaker Teams - Najaf, Iraq / USA)
Prof. Sami Zemni, Phd (Ghent University, Dpt. for Third World Studies, Coordinator Middle East & North Africa Research Group (MENARG), Director Center for Islam in Europe (CIE) 
Samir Amin (Author, director of the Third World Forum in Dakar - Senegal / Egypt)
Santiago Alba Rico (writer, philosopher, member of www.rebelion.org, Spain – Tunisia)
Sarah Meyer (Independent researcher living in Sussex - UK)
Sigyn Meder (Anti-war movement - Sweden)
Souad Naji Al-Azzawi (Asst. Prof. Env. Eng. - University of Baghdad - Iraq)
Stephan Galon (ABVV Trade-Union Secretary / Permanent Syndical Centrale Générale FGTB)
Stephen Eric Bronner (Professor of political science, Rutgers University - USA)
Stephen Lendman (Writer, analyst, co-host of The Global Research News Hour - USA)
Stephen Soldz (Director, Center for Research, Evaluation, and Program Development Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalysts for Peace and Justice - USA)
Tareq Aldelaimi (writer and political activist- Iraq)
Thomas M. Fasy (MD PhD, Clinical Associate Professor, Mount Sinai School of Medicine - USA)
Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad (former Prime Minister of Malaysia, chairman of the Perdana Global Peace Organisation - PGPO)
William Blum (Writer - USA)

 

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