Petition on Behalf of the Children of Iraq Submitted to the United Nations Charging President Bush and U.S. Authorities Actions Constitute Acts of Genocide.

From: Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) | Date: September 22, 2001| Author: Boyle, Francis | Copyright information

EDITOR'S NOTE: In September of 1991 Francis Boyle asked the Coalition to Stop U.S. intervention in the Middle East to submit an Indictment, Complaint and Petition for Relief from Genocide by President George Herbert Walker Bush and the United States of America, which he had prepared on behalf of the 4.5 million children of Iraq. Professor Boyle filed the Complaint at the request of several Iraqi mothers whose children were dying as a result of the sanctions. The Petition was submit...

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