Violation of Geneva Convention
This is in response to the concern of a number of leading international health experts for the dead Iraqis as reported recently both in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) and in your newspaper (12 March 2005). In gross violation of Geneva Convention, the Anglo-US occupation forces have not bothered to maintain any records of the dead Iraqis. This illegal war, carried out under the pretext of lies, was aimed at the colonial occupation of Iraq through a stage-managed election to empower some yes-men who will pretend to rule while the Anglo-US coalition forces continue to run Iraq and plunder its oil. The Iraqi occupation constituted a revival of the colonial policies that the British government had practised for centuries while maintaining a sham democratic government at home. Like Professor McPherson of Oxford University who criticised the British government's policy on this issue (BMJ, 12 March 2005), there were conscientious academicians in the past who had also exposed the British government's barbarism perpetuated under the colonial rule that prevailed for centuries all over the world. One such person was historian F.B. Bradley Birt who had produced a graphic account in his book "The Romance of an Eastern Capital [History of Dhaka (now in Bangladesh)] in 1906 about the colonial brutality that the British government had inflicted upon the freedom fighters of 1857. They were not only killed, but their corpses were kept hanging from trees so that vultures could feed on them. The stench of those dead bodies had made the life of the surviving inhabitants of Dhaka intolerable. No records had been maintained to account for the several millions that the British colonial rulers had slaughtered in order to maintain the colonial empire where the sun never used to set.
The present British labour government is just following the old despised path of colonialism with total contempt and disregard for international laws and therefore is not at all interested in maintaining any records of the dead Iraqis.
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