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[ Presenting plain-text part of multi-format email ] Dear List, [ Presenting plain-text part of multi-format email ] Any chance of CASI supporting this? The Mass Graves of al-Mahawil: The Truth Uncovered http://www.hrw.org/reports/2003/iraq0503/ Or have the HRW people sold their souls to the devil? Ahmed I have read the HRW material carefully and it does seem more and more extraordinary the - inspite of stated protests - pretty odd that HRW have not literally yelled their heads off re the heavy diggers used by US military etc to 'help' excavation - and demanded the securing of the sites pending forensic experts examination. I do wonder whether (and here, again in no way am I querying the graves - tho' forensic is vital not alone for possible identification and 'closing' for relatives, but to really establish numbers) whether the reluctance of the military is that they have been told not to intervene as some will be US mass graves from the last Gulf war. First the burying alive of young conscripts by US bulldozers, but many soldiers who were on burial detail tell me that there are numerous mass graves of differing sizes, all over the south of Iraqi soldiers mown down in 1991 and just buried, with no effort at identification, reporting to the Red Cross/Cresecent etc., collecting of identification. There's a lot of questions raised by the HRW reading, in too much haste to touch on others that jumped out at me know, but would be interested in others comments. Maybe Alun is right. In the Balkans when we wanted to find bad buys and show our equally reprehensible and shocking assault (on route to the Caspian and to establish bases there) was justified, care was taken (though the initial claims of vast numbers did dwindle.) Who cares about Iraqis, they are more isolated than ever, unable to compain, are only A-rabs - and the US has achieved its aim : grabbed the oil. Dead or alive, Iraqis can rot. Seeing that little boy kiss Blair on the cheek yesterday, too young to know the two generations of children whose lives had been extinguished or blighted over the last thirteen years, by a policy Blair backed so enthusiastically - as this 'war' - I remembered another kiss on the cheek in the region two thousand years ago, to indicate a betrayal. That placed on the chee kofJudas. An unintentional symbolysm. With the pack of lies on which the assault was built unravelling by the minute, it may yet come back to haunt him. Let's hope the little mite doesn't die from the effects of depleted uranium, in poisoned Basra, like so many before him. Best, felicity a. _______________________________________________ Sent via the discussion list of the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq. To unsubscribe, visit http://lists.casi.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/casi-discuss To contact the list manager, email casi-discuss-admin@lists.casi.org.uk All postings are archived on CASI's website: http://www.casi.org.uk