An Urgent Appeal for the People of Fallujah

[polly7]

by Felicity Arbuthnot / April 5th, 2016

Struan Stevenson, President of the European Iraqi Freedom Association (EIFA), is calling for “urgent action to end callous food and medicine blockade” of the Iraqi city of Fallujah.

Mr. Stevenson was a Member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2014 and was President of the European Parliament’s Delegation for Relations with Iraq from 2009 to 2014. He outlines starkly the ongoing tragedy of the “City of Mosques”, which was seventy percent destroyed by US troops in 2004 with football pitches being turned into cemeteries such was the human carnage wrought by the “liberators.” The suffering, assaults and siege has never ended. Stevenson states:

The European Iraqi Freedom Association (EIFA) strongly condemns the cruel and criminal siege of Fallujah, which, together with the denial of access to medicine, has led to the starvation and death of large numbers of innocent civilians. The unfolding tragedy has included the horrific death of a young mother who attached rocks to herself and her children and jumped into the River Euphrates. The people of Fallujah are the victims of crimes committed by Daesh (ISIS) who control the city, on the one hand and the bombing of residential areas by the Iraqi army and the sectarian Shi’ia militias affiliated with the Iranian regime, on the other.

Full article: http://dissidentvoice.org/2016/04/an-urgent-appeal-for-the-people-of-falluja/

[heaven05]

1. war crimes

pure and simple. If there is judgement after physical death, these animals perpetrating this genocide will be judged, if not, just like Bush and Cheney, nothing will EVER happen to them. They will NEVER be held accountable.

[Peregrine Took]

3. Don't call them animals. Bad people like Kissinger, Bush and Cheney are devils.

My mother used to say there are people here among us who are really devils from hell and they have the special ability of causing good people to despair. I believe it.

[Baobab]

2. they should drop millions of small packages of food too many for the ISIL to steal.

so people do not starve.

[Baobab]

4. they should drop millions of small packages of food too many for the ISIL to steal.

so people do not starve.

[Igel]

6. Tens of thousands of remaining inhabitants.

Drop millions of food packages.

Why worry about ISIL stealing them all, when they'd be laying around for free, for the taking. Thousands of food packages per person.

What better way of ensuring that ISIL folk are well fed.

Should have done the same thing in Groznyi. Oh, wait. That was just leveled as a war crime, not much of siege required.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

5. What the US military did...

...in Fallujah amounts to the most barbaric of war crimes. Reading credible accounts of what was done to that city was when I first began to realize who the REAL terrorists in the world actually are.

[Judi Lynn]

7. Great comment. Thanks. n/t

[Judi Lynn]

8. Unbearable. K & R. n/t

[polly7]

9. Fallujah’s Residents Starving, Murdered, Besieged by US Backed Government Forces and ISIS

Fallujah’s Residents Starving, Murdered, Besieged by US Backed Government Forces and ISIS

It is hard to imagine that anything worse could befall Fallujah after the war crimes and criminal assaults by the US military in 2004. At the time, one correspondent wrote:

There has been nothing like the attack on Fallujah since the Nazi invasion and occupation of much of the European continent – the shelling and bombing of Warsaw in September 1939, the terror bombing of Rotterdam in May 1940.

Seventy percent of houses and shops were reported destroyed, with those still standing damaged. Iraqi doctor, Ali Fadhil, described a city:

… completely devastated, destruction everywhere. It looked like a city of ghosts. Fallujah used to be a modern city, now there was nothing. We spent the day going through the rubble that had been the centre of the city; I didn’t see a single building that was functioning.1

Fallujah is now under siege by the US imposed Iraqi puppet government and ISIS – as people demonstrate in thousands in protest at yet another American backed administration which has brought nothing but misery to the population. Incredibly US Vice President Joe Biden and Iranian Major-General Qassem Soleimani have come together: “to make clear … that no attempt should be made to unseat” the current Prime Minister, Haider al-Abadi.2

“The people of Fallujah are besieged by the government, trapped by ISIS, and are starving”, states HRW Deputy Middle East Director, Joe Stork.

“Since government forces recaptured nearby Ramadi, the capital of Anbar governorate, in late December 2015, and the al-Jazira desert area north of Fallujah in March 2016, they have cut off supply routes into the city, three Iraqi officials said. Tens of thousands of civilians from an original population of more than 300,000 remain inside the city.”

Full article: http://dissidentvoice.org/2016/04/fallujahs-residents-starving-murdered-besieged-by-us-backed-government-forces-and-isis/