Free Iraq

Notes on Genocide in Iraq
8. Appendix (pgs. 42-44)
According to Article 2 of the Genocide Convention, the following arguably constitute qualifying acts of genocide in Iraq, 1990-2007. All have been conducted by US forces, multinational forces, and/or US-supported death squads, militias or Iraqi security forces under the final military authority of the United States:

(a) Killing members of the group
Use of disproportionate and indiscriminate force
Disproportionate killings of members of the middle class as a defined national group
Disproportionate killings of Sunnis as a religious group
Wilful destruction of electricity and water infrastructure
Wilful destruction of sanitation infrastructure.
Widespread forced disappearances
Assassinations of members of the Baath Party as a defined national group
Assassinations of doctors as members of a national group
Assassinations of academics as members of a national group
Assassinations of lawyers as members of a national group
Assassinations of journalists as members of a national group
Killings by US-supported death squads
Killings by US-supported sectarian militias
Instigation of sectarian strife leading to tit-for-tat killings
Widespread use of DU leading to cancer and leukaemia
Wilful destruction of the healthcare system leading to mass preventable deaths

(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
Widespread use of torture
1990-2003 sanctions regime
Use of disproportionate and indiscriminate force
Widespread use of DU leading to cancer, leukaemia, sterility and birth defects
Wilful dismantling of the state in all its aspects, individually and severally
Wilful destruction of electricity and water infrastructure
Wilful destruction of sanitation infrastructure
Wilful destruction of Iraqi heritage
Wilful destruction of religious sites
Wilful destruction of Iraqi civil infrastructure
Disproportionate killings of members of the middle class
Disproportionate killings of Sunnis
Widespread forced disappearances
Assassinations of members of the Baath Party
Assassinations of doctors
Assassinations of academics
Assassinations of lawyers
Assassinations of journalists
US support for death squads
US support for sectarian militias
Instigation of general terror
Instigation of sectarian strife
Mass kidnapping
Mass extortion
Mass rape
Mass corruption
Mass humiliation
Instigation of a drug culture
Instigation of prostitution
Mass unemployment
Mass impoverishment
Mass malnourishment
Ghettoisation
Restrictions on movement
Instigation of a drug culture
Urbicide
Historicide
Sociocide
Policide

(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
1990-2003 sanctions regime
Use of disproportionate and indiscriminate force
Widespread use of DU and the contamination of land and water resources
Wilful dismantling of the state in all its aspects, individually and severally
Wilful destruction of electricity and water infrastructure
Wilful destruction of sanitation infrastructure
Wilful destruction of Iraqi heritage
Wilful destruction of religious sites
Wilful destruction of Iraqi civil infrastructure
Disproportionate killings of members of the middle class
Disproportionate killings of Sunnis
Widespread forced disappearances
Assassinations of members of the Baath Party
Assassinations of the Iraqi resistance
Assassinations of doctors
Assassinations of academics
Assassinations of lawyers
Assassinations of journalists
US support for death squads
US support for sectarian militias
Instigation of general terror
Instigation of sectarian strife
Mass arbitrary detention
Mass kidnapping
Mass extortion
Mass torture
Mass rape
Mass corruption
Mass humiliation
Instigation of prostitution
Mass unemployment
Mass impoverishment
Mass malnourishment
Ghettoisation
Restrictions on movement
Urbicide
Historicide
Sociocide
Policide

(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
Widespread use of DU leading to sterility and birth defects
Instigation of general terror
Mass arbitrary detention
Mass impoverishment
Mass malnourishment
Ghettoisation
Restrictions on movement
Urbicide
Sociocide

According to Article 3, the following arguably constitute qualifying crimes in Iraq:

(a) Genocide;
All aspects noted above, individually and severally

(b) Conspiracy to commit genocide;
US strategic agenda in Iraq, 1990 to the present
Ongoing US strategic adjustments
All members of Multinational Force-Iraq (MNF-I), individually and severally
The Iraqi government as an arm of the occupation
All members of the United Nations, individually and severally, who supported sanctions and the 2003 invasion

(c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide;
“Shock and Awe”
Statements of US neoconservatives
Statements of US “liberal hawks”
Right wing and liberal US media alike in contributing to the vilification of Iraqis
Right wing and liberal US media alike in contributing to the vilification of the Iraqi Baath Party
Right wing and liberal US media alike in contributing to sectarian
US corporate propaganda

(d) Attempt to commit genocide;
All aspects noted above, individually and severally

(e) Complicity in genocide.
All members of MNF-I, individually and severally
The Iraqi government as an arm of the occupation
All members of the United Nations, individually and severally, who failed to stop sanctions and the 2003 invasion
 

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