Brit Iraq War Inquiry Report

I just received an e-mail notice this morning with the subject of "Partition by Census". It's by BRussells Tribunal. Denis Halliday, Stephen Lendman, and Dahr Jamail have already signed to endorse this petition or statement of demand for Iraqi rights and for International law and conventions to be respected; with a special focus on partitioning of Iraq must not be done by anyone other than the Iraqi people themselves.

The link can be obtained in the home page and is only a little down from the top of the page. You'll quickly see it.

http://brussellstribunal.org

Following is an excerpt from the petition.

We, the undersigned, defending the right of Iraq to independence, sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity, rejecting the attempts of Iraqi puppets promoted by the US occupation to trade the national rights of Iraqis and to institutionalise via census the criminal demographic engineering they have pursued by force, declare that:

From the first day of the US-UK occupation of Iraq, the occupation began to undertake a series of measures, directly or through its local allies, to destroy Iraq as a state and a nation and to partition it along ethnic and sectarian lines.

Today, the puppet government of the occupation and its Kurdish partners are trying to hold a population census in Kirkuk province whose aim is to give a permanent legal character to the criminal social engineering, ethnic cleansing and demographic changes that have been implemented under occupation.[1] This could unleash a full blown civil war across Iraq, and potentially lead to its partition and a consequent regional war.

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The ethnic cleansing suffered by the population in the provinces of Mosul, Diyala, Salahuddin and the Baghdad area, and most notably in Kirkuk and the so-called "disputed areas" — where the population is forced by various means, including systematic assassinations, bombing civilians, collective punishment, transfer, displacement, deportation and other crimes against humanity, to migrate only to be replaced by people from other provinces or even from outside Iraq — is a clear crime of destruction and part of the intended partition of Iraq.

The United States, the United Kingdom and their allies waged an illegal war of aggression against Iraq and occupied its territory. This war in itself is a crime punishable under international law. International law, in particular The Hague Regulations of 1907, the Geneva Conventions and additional protocols, and the Genocide Convention, explicitly prohibits occupying powers from instituting changes aimed at permanently altering the foundational structures of occupied territories, including the judiciary, economy, political institutions and social fabric.[2]

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We demand that no census be conducted before the free return of all Iraqi refugees. We demand that the question of ethnicity not be used to instigate the partition of Iraq and that it be removed from any census, now and in the future. We declare as fraudulent the justification under occupation of a census on the basis of long term planning in the context of a temporary and unstable demographic situation.

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Please sign to support this statement. Write a message to (snip)

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I snipped the email address in order for people wanting to sign this petition to go to the Web site, then the petition page, read the petition in full, et cetera.

Everyone, sign this petition. It might not change the minds of the criminal western imperialists, but signing this petition will express our solidarity with the Iraqi people, International laws and conventions, our Constitution, and so on.