UN report: US troops "starve Iraqi citizens," violate international law

[enough]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4344136.stm

(from Buzzflash)


Ziegler: "Flagrant violation of international law"

A senior United Nations official has accused US-led coalition troops of depriving Iraqi civilians of food and water in breach of humanitarian law.

Human rights investigator Jean Ziegler said they had driven people out of insurgent strongholds that were about to be attacked by cutting supplies. Mr Ziegler, a Swiss-born sociologist, said such tactics were in breach of international law.

A US military spokesman in Baghdad denied the allegations.

"A drama is taking place in total silence in Iraq, where the coalition's occupying forces are using hunger and deprivation of water as a weapon of war against the civilian population," Mr Ziegler told a press conference in Geneva.

He said coalition forces were using "starvation of civilians as a method of warfare."

"This is a flagrant violation of international law," he added.

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[Union Thug]

1. never mind that man behind the curtain! We are the GREAT and BENEVOLENT

Corporate States of America! Now go buy some cheap garbage at WalMart and forget about what you've seen here...

[McCamy Taylor]

2. I saw this one. This is really bad!

:grr: