Action Alert - No justice for Iraqi children

Peace Movement Aotearoa

Kia ora, a new initiative just come in today, a sign-on indictment of those responsible for the sanctions against the people of Iraq, to be brought in the International Court of Justice. Please sign and return to <embargo@equilibre.org> if you support this initiative.



NO JUSTICE FOR IRAQI CHILDREN

- In the name of the hundreds of thousands of children that have died in Iraq, in indescribable conditions of destitution and suffering, brought about by the economic embargo imposed by the United Nations Security Council seven years ago,
- In the name of their mothers and fathers, unable to seek representation before the competent bodies of the United Nations for various reasons,
- In the name of all the suffering of the Iraqi people, waiting for the lifting of the embargo, of which they are,for the most part ,the innocent victims since seven long years,

- In the name of the citizens of the member states of the Security Council who imposed the embargo, but who refuse to adhere to this decision, and refuse all complicity with the resulting crimes,

We bring charges before the International Court of Justice of the Hague, and before all other competent National and International bodies, against the aforesaid embargo decreed by the United Nations Security Council, for
- Non-Respect of the Geneva Conventions (12/08/1949)

- Non-Respect of the United Nations Charter (26/06/1945)

- Non-Respect of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (10/12/1948)

- Non-respect of the Universal Declaration of Childhood Rights.

The violation of these International Conventions, by which our countries are formally bound, implies the judicial and moral responsability of our nations for the victims of the Iraqi people. In the face of such grave consequences we also suffer prejudice and are consequently directly involved with the Iraqi victims with the determination

- to finally bring about the acceptance that "to seek to suffocate a people by an embargo will appear an unpardonable crime against Humanity"* and thus to implicate all those who participate

- to bring about by legal decision the immediate lifting of the economic embargo which affects so dramatically the Iraqi people, themselves by-standers to the actual political showdown,and hostages to the protagonists. But it is impossible, for the impunity of the responsible ones is secured by a judicial vacuum.

We will all the same bring charges to draw the all world attention to this injustice, in order answers to be brought and solutions to be found. In support of these charges, with the necessary legal enclosures, we will submit all the procurations that will be signed by the mothers and fathers of children who have died because of the embargo, and by men and women of the free world who feel wronged and concerned and who have decided to act by implicating all appropriate National and International bodies.

Alain Michel
President EquiLibre
*Claude Cheysson 1991

Villeurbanne, 7th February 1998

PROCURATION

INDICTMENT FOR COLLECTIVE FAMINE

I the undersigned :

Name ....................... ...................
First name :
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Address:
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Give power of attorney to Mr. Alain Michel, President of the association EquiLibre, to represent me in the submission of the above mentioned charges to the International Court of Justice of the Hague and to the other International and National bodies concerned.

Date : Signature :


Any moral persons (organizations, unions, groups...) can join this indictment.

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