Walls and War Crimes
May 7, 2008
Baghdad's Sadr City (formerly named Al Thawa in the 1950's, then Medina al Saddam - Saddam City) dismissively and degradingly dubbed 'a slum', by the main stream media, has suffered grievously. Grindingly poor, proud, with both the criminality that poverty brings and the hardest of working, determined never to sink to it - and all the complexities in between, Sadr City is now America's latest victim. In Washington's unique interpretation of 'liberation', it is being walled in, so residents have no escape - and the trapped bombed. Add your own metaphor, starting with General Norman Schwartzkopf's 1991: 'Turkey shoot.' This is the neighborhood-wide equivalent of the homicidal maniac with arsonist tendencies, who locks in the familiy, pours gasoline over the surrounds and through the letter box, following up with a few lighted matches.
'Liberate' (Collins Dictionary) is: 'to free from social prejudices or injustices, to make free or to release a country from enemy occupation.' America and Britain's finest certainly got that one the wrong way round and now it is Sadr City's turn to become target for their sadistic distortions.
It is uncertain how many of Sadr City's residents have been liberated from their lives and/or their homes, but on Saturday 3rd May, in the densely inhabitated and teeming area surrrounding the general hospital, American insurgents went in search of 'terrorists' and a 'weapons cache' - from the air, with bombs.
' Civilian hospitals organized to give care to the wounded and sick, the infirm and maternity cases, may in no circumstances be the object of attack, but shall at all times be respected and protected by the Parties to the conflict. Persons regularly and solely engaged in the operation and administration of civilian hospitals, including the personnel engaged in the search for, removal and transporting of and caring for wounded and sick civilians, the infirm and maternity cases, shall be respected and protected', reads the Geneva Convention, Article 19.
However, at home and abroad, international law has been abandoned by America's lawmakers and their itinerant, uniformed killers. Recently it was disclosed that over three hundred thousand US soldiers suffer from 'mental conditions.' Given their astonishingly deviant behaviour, where ever their postings, whether in peace, war, or illegal invasions, it has to be wondered how high the percentage of these 'mental conditions' were deep rooted long term disorders, well pre-existing their service.
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