{"id":139153,"date":"2014-09-10T20:37:54","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T20:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=139153"},"modified":"2014-09-10T20:37:54","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T20:37:54","slug":"u-s-u-k-genocide-iraq-1990-2012-killed-3-3-million-including-750000-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/war-terrorism\/u-s-u-k-genocide-iraq-1990-2012-killed-3-3-million-including-750000-children\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S.-U.K. Genocide Against Iraq 1990-2012 Killed 3.3 Million, Including 750,000 Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Sherwood Ross<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Approximately 3.3 million Iraqis, including 750,000 children, were \u201cexterminated\u201d by economic sanctions and\/or illegal wars conducted by the U.S. and Great Britain between 1990 and 2012, an eminent international legal authority says.<\/p>\n<p>The slaughter fits the classic definition of Genocide Convention Article II of, \u201cDeliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part,\u201d says Francis Boyle, professor of international law at the University of Illinois, Champaign, and who in 1991 filed a class-action complaint with the UN against President George H.W. Bush.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. and U.K. \u201cobstinately insisted\u201d that their sanctions remain in place until after the \u201cillegal\u201d Gulf War II aggression perpetrated by President George W. Bush and UK\u2019s Tony Blair in March, 2003, \u201cnot with a view to easing the over decade-long suffering of the Iraqi people and children\u201d but \u201cto better facilitate the U.S.\/U.K. unsupervised looting and plundering of the Iraqi economy and oil fields in violation of the international laws of war as well as to the grave detriment of the Iraqi people,\u201d Boyle said.<\/p>\n<p>In an address last <span tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_537990349\">Nov. 22<\/span> to The International Conference on War-affected Children in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Boyle tallied the death toll on Iraq by U.S.-U.K. actions as follows:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/warisacrime.org\/content\/us-uk-genocide-against-iraq-1990-2012-killed-33-million-including-750000-children\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sherwood Ross Approximately 3.3 million Iraqis, including 750,000 children, were \u201cexterminated\u201d by economic sanctions and\/or illegal wars conducted by the U.S. and Great Britain between 1990 and 2012, an eminent international legal authority says. The slaughter fits the classic definition of Genocide Convention Article II of, \u201cDeliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":139154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-139153","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-war-terrorism"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}