DAY TWO: 6th Feb 2007 Tuesday
War Criminal Conference & Exhibition
[Dewan Merdeka, PWTC, Kuala Lumpur]
 
SESSION 4: MASS MEDIA - WAR PROPOGANDA
Iraq – Criminalising the Right to Resist
Ms. Hana Bayaty
 
  • Read a passage from her paper
  • The occupation has brought Iraq to the brink of civil war.
  • Insist the Iraq is not an insurgence - no such thing as a legal govt. Combatants - should be protected by the Geneva Convention.
  • Not sure who is benefiting from the war
  • No peace agreement - Army is fighting for the sovereignty of the country
  • Occupation is a de facto reality - it is not a sovereign govt.
  • By international law - everything that derives from this illegal war - is ILLEGAL
  • The project cannot succeed because - must be built on the concept of citizenship. Who is Iraqi?
  • The invasion has proved its weakness - invading a smaller country - shows its weakness
  • Their plan is more sophisticated - dividing the country into smaller states - to weaken the Arabian countries - cannot work
  • There is genocide against the Sunni in Iraq.
  • Defend the people - who are fighting this atrocities
  • Iraqis love their country so much that they would do anything to defend their country - against the invasion
  • It is nobody's business - as to what the Iraqis want for their country.
  • War is not only immoral but useless.
  • How to help. Build networks to bring in aid. The Americans want to erase the potential in the country i.e scientists, teachers, lecturers, doctors, etc. People are fleeing the country - exodus. Not getting refugee status . International committees must help.

Requests/ demands:. Not to interfere in Iraqi affairs. Resistance be recognised. Push to have the present Iraqi government abolished, as they are not helping the people of Iraq.. Push that combatants and the resistance - be recognised as an army and be protected. The prisoners to be recognised as prisoners of war.