[Peace-discuss] UFPJ desires...

[C. G. Estabrook]

Actually, I should correct this, particularly now that the Clintons are back in
office.  The one possible example of a non-tendentious use of the term genocide
in the ME recently is the sanctions that the Clinton administration imposed on
Iraq, because of their murderous effect on the Iraqi civilians.

Former UN Humanitarian Coordinator Denis Halliday resigned in disgust and called
the policy “genocide.” (When asked about the policy, Clinton’s Secretary of
State Madeleine Albright conceded the figure of 500,000 children killed by the
sanctions as of 1996 and said that the political gains derived from the mass
murder policy were “worth it.” )  --CGE


C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> ... But I see no examples of genocide (a word coined in the mid-20th century 
> and now used primarily for propaganda purposes) in the current Middle East...