| Campaign to End the Iraq Sanctions - Ireland Campaign to End the Iraq Sanctions - IrelandDeadly Results of US/UK ledSanctions Against Iraq One Child Dies Every 10 Minutes 6000 Children Each Month Nearly 1 Million Dead in 10 Years 'The conditions in Iraq are appalling. Malnutrition is running at about 30% for children under 5 years old.... This is directly attributable to the impact of sanctions, which have caused the breakdown of the clean water system, health facilities and all the things that young children require....It's incompatible with the UN Charter, with the Convention on Human Rights, with the Convention on the Rights of the Child....' - Denis Halliday, 34-year veteran of United Nations, upon resigning his post as UN administrator for the 'Oil for Food' program The main page for this campaign is now at Details of a public meeting at Liberty Hall, Dublin, 7:30 PM, Wednesday 25th A policy that leads to the death of children is morally unacceptable. Ten years of crippling sanctions and military attacks have taken the lives of well over 1.5 million Iraqi people. The sanctions are inflicting the cruelest genocide in history: slow deaths by malnutrition, polluted water, manufactured sicknesses, and forced deprivation of health care and medicines. Please help us end the suffering. Join us and others around the world in calling for an end to the economic and military attacks on the people of Iraq. Ireland, say no to the sancti...
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