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US troops 'starve Iraqi citizens'
(BBC NEWS, 16 October 2005)
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 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. . . . Mr Ziegler said he understood the "military rationale" when confronting insurgents who do not respect "any law of war". . . . But he insisted that civilians who could not leave besieged cities and towns for whatever reason should not suffer as a result of this strategy. . . . The Geneva Conventions forbid depriving civilians of food and water. . . . Cutting off food supply lines and destroying food stocks is also forbidden. . . . Mr Ziegler, who opposed the US-led invasion of Iraq, said he would urge the UN General Assembly to condemn this practice when he presented his yearly report on 27 October.

posted by LoZo 12:19 PM