Benjamin Geer on Sat, 28 Aug 2004 02:57:34 +0200 (CEST) |
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Re: <nettime> Dealing with state terrorism |
ericbj@club-internet.fr wrote: > The U.N. oil-embargo permitted Iraq sufficient oil sales for > the revenues to feed its population and maintain > essential services. Moreover the regime sold a lot more > oil than permitted, exporting it as contraband, via > Syria for instance. However the oil revenues went > mainly to military expenditure and into the private bank > accounts of members of the regime. It was therefore the > regime that killed hundreds of thousands of civilians, Yes and no. The embargo kept out a lot of necessary supplies because they were classified as "dual-use". For example, Iraq was forbidden to import chlorine, which was needed in water-treatment plants, on the grounds that it could also be used to make chemical weapons. As a result, a lot of children died from water-borne diseases. http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0804-04.htm Ben # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net