… and peace be upon you, O Fallujah: a CD with 20 pages booklet
by Tadhamun-Iraqi Women Solidarity on 21-02-2013
A CD with 20 pages booklet produced by Tadhamun – Iraqi Women Solidarity. It tells the story of the US-led attacks on Fallujah in April and November 2004, a year after the invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003. It is told in an audio collage of Iraqi and non-Iraqi poetry, songs, music, testimonies, and news clips with the persistent sound of US Apaches hovering in the skies above the people of Iraq.
ACCOUNTABILITY BABIES DESTRUCTION ENVIRONMENT FALLUJAH GENOCIDE HEALTH HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTIONS IRAQ – GENERAL CONTEXT – ENVIRONMENT IRAQ – GENERAL CONTEXT – HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IRAQ – GENERAL CONTEXT – POLITICS IRAQ – GENERAL CONTEXT – RESISTANCE IRAQ – SPECIFIC GROUPS – CHILDREN IRAQ – SPECIFIC GROUPS – WOMEN JUSTICE FOR IRAQ OCCUPATION TRAUMATIZED US NATO WAR WAR CRIMES
The dark and secret dungeons of Iraq. Horror stories of female prisoners
by Wijhat Nadhar on 02-12-2012
When women in Iraq are arrested, they routinely go through three gruesome phases, starting with humiliation, followed by torture, and often ending with rape. I have received disturbing information from two different, well informed sources: one from qualified social workers in Al-Kadimiyah Women Prison, the other from three national guards officers who worked in the prison.
Update of UNHCR Protection Considerations for Palestinian refugees in Iraq – July 2012
by UNHCR on 29-11-2012
Persecution of members of the Palestinian community in Iraq began almost immediately after the US led invasion in April 2003. Palestinians were subject to harassment, targeted attacks, kidnapping, abduction, torture and extra-judicial killings by the Iraqi government and militias
Israeli War Crimes: “Surgical Strikes” against Palestinian Children. The “International Community” Also Lies Buried
by Felicity Arbuthnot on 24-11-2012
It was that “pinpoint accuracy”, “surgical strike” stuff again, there were “unavoidable tragic errors”, “mistakes”, “scrupulous efforts made to avoid” etc., blah. And as Britain’s Colonel Richard Kemp declared of the fourteen hundred dead of the Christmas and New year onslaught on Gaza in 2008-2009: “Mistakes are not war crimes.” (i)
Iraq: No escape from danger for returning refugees
by Caroline Hawley on 31-10-2012
During the height of Iraq's civil war, neighbouring Syria was a sanctuary for Iraqis – but as the Syrian conflict has intensified, Iraqi refugees have again been forced to flee, this time back to their homeland, as the BBC's Caroline Hawley reports from Baghdad.
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