BRussells Tribunal statements, appeals and dossiers

 

  

 

 

  (demonstration against the occupation of a school by US forces - Fallujah April 2003)

 

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Free Iraqi political refugee Sheikh Al Kharbit (19 April 2008)

 

 

* 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.

 

* Essential Studies published by the BRussells Tribunal

* Crimes of the Century: Occupation & Contaminating Iraq with Depleted Uranium - Dr. Souad N. Al-Azzawi - 28 pages -15 June 2008.

* Deterioration of Iraqi Women's Rights and Living Conditions Under Occupation [PDF] - A survey by Dr. Souad N. Al-Azzawi - 34 pages - 19 December 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] - 15 pages - MHRI 10 December 2007

* US Genocide In Iraq [PDF] - Dr. Ian Douglas  - 44 pages - 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 - 18 pages - 17 June 2007

* Research on Death Squads in  Iraq [PDF] Report of  Monitoring of Human Rights in Iraq Network (MHRI) - 45 pages  - December 2006

* Of War, Siege, and Lebanon: Women’s voices from the Middle East and South Asia (12 Oct 2006) [PDF]

* Depleted Uranium Radioactive Contamination In Iraq [PDF]- Dr. Souad N. Al-Azzawi - 20 pages  - August 2006

* Iraqi Hospitals Ailing Under Occupation [PDF]- Dahr Jamail  38 pages - June 2005

- More PDF Dossiers. Click here -

 

* No Attack on Mosul!

International Emergency Statement of Intellectuals and Activists * - IAON - 05 February 2008.

The occupation declares that a new “decisive” success is imminent, this time against the population of Mosul, the second largest city in Iraq. The imminent attack on Mosul - another urbicide - will only result, as with its precedents in Fallujah, Al-Qaim, Tel Afar, Haditha etc... in horrific killings, destruction and mass population displacement. Although the occupation has on many occasions declared its victory, the fact that it needs to attack yet again an entire city and its population proves that it couldn’t and cannot eradicate the legal resistance of the Iraqi people. The occupation has escalated its air bombing campaigns by 400 per cent  in the past year and openly promises more indiscriminate attacks on populated urban areas. It uses disproportionate force indiscriminately against civilian populations in a pattern of actions that constitutes genocide under international law. Read the statement.         [Arabic] - [Portuguese] - [Spanish]- [Dutch]

 

* Iraqi oil revenues 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)

 

* The Iraq Solidarity Campaign is calling upon the international anti-occupation movements

to mobilise in an act of unity and defiance, against the planned elimination of the Iraqi food rationing system.      

 Sign the International Petition!

 

* No just peace under occupation - Con ocupación no existe la paz justa

Joint statement of The International Anti-Occupation Network, The BRussells Tribunal, The Spanish Campaign Against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq and The Iraq Solidarity Association in Stockholm on withdrawing from the Madrid Forum for a Just Peace in the Middle East - Read all about the Zionist interference.

 

 

* STATEMENT AGAINST THE PARTITION OF IRAQ:

 

All those who support the partition of Iraq participate in the crime of destroying Iraq, its heritage and future. IRAQ IS UNBREAKABLE.

 

 

Come and join the quagmire: Kouchner in Iraq  (Diana Johnstone and Lieven De Cauter, 28 Aug 2007)

 

* To Human Rights Council of the United Nations – June 2007 session:

Reopen investigations into the weapons used by the Israeli Forces in Lebanon and Gaza.

A Committee of scientists and experts signed an open letter and a request to reopen investigations in the weapons used by the Israeli Forces in Lebanon in the summer of 2006 and in the attacks against Gaza in 2006. Also the Committee requests to establish 2 panels: the first with the task to reconsider the claim for the use of illegal weapons and the latter with the task of performing a field testing for the assessment of gene toxicity and other health risks on animals in the South of Lebanon.

 

* AFTER FOUR YEARS OF OCCUPATION

* Open letter to the anti-war movement (Hana Al Bayaty, 18 March 2007)

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

* Index on Iraq: A journey in hell (Sarah Meyer, 17 April 2007)

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

*  International conference highlights plight of Iraqi refugees (WSWS 23 April 2007)

* IRCO: Nearly 2.5M Iraqi Refugees Under Age 12 (21 June 2007)

(the BRussells Tribunal in the demo of 18 March 2007 in Brussels - foto: Indymedia.be - read more..)

 

* Open uw ogen voor de terrorismewet ze sluit

De zaak Bahar Kimyongur

[Français]  [English]

Les militants ne sont pas des terroristes, ni en France, ni en Belgique ni ailleurs !

Face à la multiplication des cas de criminalisation des contestataires en Belgique et ailleurs, réagissons. Nous appelons à l’unité de tous les démocrates et de tous les progressistes contre la répression des mouvements sociaux, pour une démocratie réelle et non formelle. Ceci passe aujourd’hui par la remise en question de la loi antiterroriste belge de 2003

No  Patriot Act in Belgium !

 

* La Cour d’appel d’Anvers a, en effet, confirmé ce que nous rappellons  depuis des années : Musa, Bahar, Sukriye, Kaya et les autres militants poursuivis ne sont ni des malfaiteurs, ni des criminels, ni des terroristes... [Texte intégral de l'Arrêt] [Arrest Hof van Beroep in DHKP-C proces] - 07 Fev. 2008

 

* THIS WALL IS THEIR GRAVE

Statement by The BRussells Tribunal Committee (25 April 2007)

- Plans for Al-Adhamiyah confirm that the US occupation and its puppets in Iraq can build nothing but open-air prisons. It will fail.

- No military strategy can impose on the Iraqi people an occupation it overwhelmingly refuses. Its resistance is national and continues.

- What kind of government walls-in its own people? One desperate and illegitimate, tied to the fate of a defeated occupation.

 

* IRAQI KILLING FIELDS :  ©opyright U$A™

* List of Iraqi academics murdered under US occupation

* List of Iraqi and non-Iraqi media professionals killed under US occupation - Background articles

 

* 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)

 

* 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 2.000.000 internally displaced. 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 July 2007)

 

* Comments on the Lancet Survey and other mortality studies (Updated 18 Sep 2007)

 

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

 

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

* Tel Afer (Merry Fitzgerald, 27 March 2007)

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

* Turkmens of Iraq (Hassan Aydinli, 15 Dec 2007)

 

* THIS DEFEATED OCCUPATION - We must pre-empt it

Statement by Hana Al Bayaty, Ian Douglas, Abdul Ilah Albayaty, Iman Al Saadoon, Dirk Adriaensens, Ayse Berktay, Matthias Chang, Arundhati Roy, Michel Chossudovsky and Eduardo Galeano (7 March 2007)

[Arabic] - [Portuguese] - [Spanish] - [Turkish]

On 10 March 2007 in Baghdad a stillborn regional conference will convene in which the Iraqi people will again be absent, their resistance not represented. Instead, a defeated US occupation will continue attempting to write the fate of the Iraqi people, conspiring with an undemocratic Security Council, as well as neighbouring and regional states, supposedly invited by a puppet government.

* Here's the opinion of the Iraqis. They want the occupation out. Read the polls !

 

* AN APPEAL TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE

Tun Dr Mahathir bin Mohamad (09 May 2007)

Chairman, Perdana Global Peace Organisation

Honorary member of the BRussells Tribunal

 

* HANGING THE WOMB OF IRAQ

Stop the executions of 3 Iraqi women!

Statement of Hana Albayaty, Ian Douglas, Abdul Ilah Albayaty, Iman Saadoon, Dirk Adriaensens and Ayse Berktay  (14 Feb 2006)

We hope all endorse and distribute widely this call. Please reply to hanaalbayaty@gmail.com.   Click here for list of endorsers.

* Statements, articles and actions against the imminent execution of 3 Iraqi women.

*  Second update on efforts to stop the summary execution  (03 March 2007)

* Third update on the three Iraqi women facing imminent execution  (09 March 2007)

[Français] - [Arabic] - [Spanish] - [Turkish]

 

* The execution of the President

Statement by Abdul Ilah Albayaty, Ian Douglas, Karen Parker (BRussells Tribunal Advisory Committee), Hana Albayaty, Dirk Adriaensens, Inge Van De Merlen (BRussells Tribunal Executive Committee),  29 December 2006

 

* THE WAY OUT

US forces must negotiate an immediate withdrawal with the Iraqi resistance *

The American people must hold their leaders responsible for the crime of aggressive war

[ Endorse this statement online ]   -   [Arabic] - [Spanish] - [French] - [Dutch]

* Iraqi voices of Resistance

* Only resistance is legal (Hana and Abdul Ilah Albayaty, Ian Douglas - BRussells Tribunal Committee, 05 Oct 2006)   [Français] - [Arabic] - [Spanish]

 


 * The Haditha Doctor and The Media Dissemblers (Sarah Meyer - Updated article 24 Dec 2006)

 

Pipeline News should apologize to the BRrussells Tribunal, the doctor in Haditha and to their readers for their blatantly ugly/ untrue propaganda.

 

 

 * Their next massacre

(Abdul Ilah Al Bayaty, Hana Al Bayaty, Ian Douglas, Dirk Adriaensens -  BRussells Tribunal Committee, 28 Nov 2006)

The Green Zone government and its militias are attacking civilians across Iraq to halt the resistance 

The US and all occupying forces are legally and morally responsible for protecting all Iraqi civilians 

No level of atrocity can break the geopolitical unity and sovereignty of Iraq

[Arabic] [Portuguese] [German] [Français] [Spanish]

 

* Action Needed Over Detention of Iraqi Education Ministry Officials. Unknown numbers murdered, dozen still illegally held

Statement of the BRussells Tribunal 22 Nov 2006.

 

* ONLY RESISTANCE IS LEGAL

 

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

 

 [Français] - [Arabic] - [Spanish]

 

* 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]

 

 * Special webpage: Comments on the Lancet Study

 

* WAR CRIMES

 

Committed by the US in Iraq and Mechanisms for Accountability (10 Oct 2006) [PDF]

Report of Consumers For Peace, co-issued by the BRussells Tribunal

 

* Ann Wright joins endorsers of War Crimes Report

International Anti-Occupation Network and Stop the War Coalition (UK) join report publishers (13 Oct 2006)

Read the press release.

 

* War Crimes Committed by the US in Iraq and Mechanisms for Accountability (10 Oct 2006) [PDF]

Report of Consumers For Peace, co-issued by the BRussells Tribunal

* Ann Wright joins endorsers of War Crimes Report - International Anti-Occupation Network and Stop the War Coalition (UK) join report publishers (13 Oct 2006) -