Message from the people of Fallujah

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Tuesday November 02, 2004 06:15

by jamie

Wake up already. It's 1984

Please read and forward, or otherwise share, the following message from the people of Fallujah with as wide an audience as you can. I fear an awful fate for these humble and courageous citizens is at hand. An outpouring of indignation may protect them from slaughter.

Dear friends,

Please read and forward, or otherwise share, the following message from the people of Fallujah with as wide an audience as you can. I fear an awful fate for these humble and courageous citizens is at hand. An outpouring of indignation may protect them from slaughter. Please help. jamie

Message from the people of Fallujah
By: stopwar on: 01.11.2004 [20:48 ] (312 reads)

Message from the people of Fallujah
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This letter was sent by representatives of the people of Fallujah to the UN secretary general Kofi Annan

"IT IS more than evident that US forces are committing daily acts of genocide in Iraq. As we write, these crimes are being perpetrated against the city of Fallujah.

US war planes are launching their most powerful bombs against the civilian population, killing and wounding hundreds of innocent people. Their tanks are pounding the city with heavy artillery.

As you know, there is no military presence in the city. There have been no actions by the resistance in Fallujah in the last few weeks because negotiations are in progress between representatives of the city and the Allawi government.

The new bombardment by the US has begun while the people are fasting during the celebration of Ramadan. Now many of them are trapped in the ruins of their homes and cut off from any outside assistance.

On the night of 13 October a single US bombardment destroyed 50 houses and their inhabitants. Is this a crime of genocide or a lesson about US democracy? The US is committing acts of terror against the people of Fallujah
for only one reason to force them to accept the occupation.

Your excellency and the whole world know that the US and their allies have destroyed our country on the pretext of the threat of weapons of mass destruction.

Now, after their own mass destruction and the killing of thousands of civilians, they have admitted that they have not found any.

But they have said nothing about the crimes they have committed. The whole world is silent, and even the killing of Iraqi civilians is not condemned. Will the US be paying compensation, as it made Iraq do after the 1991 Gulf War?

We know that we live in a world of double standards. In Fallujah the US has created a new and shadowy target ”Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

Al-Zarqawi is a new excuse to justify the USAs criminal actions. A year has passed since this new excuse was dreamed up, and every time they attack homes, mosques and restaurants, killing women and children, they say. We have launched a successful operation against al-Zarqawi.

They will never say they have killed him, because he does not exist. The people of Fallujah assure you that this person is not in the city, nor probably anywhere else in Iraq.

Many times the people of Fallujah have asked that if anyone sees al-Zarqawi they should kill him. We know now that he is nothing but a phantom created by the US.

Our representatives have repeatedly denounced kidnapping and killing of civilians. We have nothing to do with any group that acts in an inhumane manner.

We call on you and the leaders of the world to exert the greatest pressure on the Bush administration to end its crimes against Fallujah and pull its army back from the city.

When they left a while ago, the city had peace and tranquillity. There was no disorder in the city. The civil administration here functioned well, despite the lack of resources.

Our offence is simply that we did not welcome the forces of occupation. This is our right according to UN Charter, according to international law and according to the norms of humanity.

It is very urgent that you, along with other world leaders, intervene immediately to prevent another massacre.
We have tried to contact UN representatives in Iraq to ask them to do this but, as you know, they are sealed off in the maximum security Green Zone in Baghdad and we are not allowed access to them.

We want the UN to take a stand on the situation in Fallujah.

Best wishes, in the name of the people of Fallujah, the shura council of Fallujah, the trade union association,
the teachers union, and the council of tribal leaders "

Kassim Abdullsattar al-Jumaily: President
The Study Center of Human Rights & Democracy
On behalf of the people of Fallujah and for:
Al-Fallujah Shura Council
The Bar Association
The Teacher Union
Council of Tribes Leaders
The House of Fatwa and Religious Education

PLEASE FORWARD THIS MESSAGE

jamie

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sarcasm

by TT

Tue Nov 02, 2004 21:53

It is ok because Bush has Poland supporting him. I don't recall how Poland's communist leaders supporting the Soviet's invasion of Afghanistan made the Soviet's invasion any less the bloodsoaked offensive it was. But Bush seems to think that Poland's capitalist leaders supporting his war in Iraq does make his war less bloodsoaked and offensive.

Fallujah letter

by Clark

Mon Nov 08, 2004 08:42

tembld at cox dot net

If anyone believes this letter is from anyone other than the terrorists then I have some great land they'd probably like to buy in the middle of the desert.

Get real.

fallujah

by spotless mind

Tue Nov 09, 2004 15:20

Whether or not you believe this letter to be real or not you cannot deny innocent people are being killed in fallujah. I just think its terrible of you to pass this off as done by a bunch of terrorist...surely it represents many of the people of fallujah anyway..whether by them or not! Wake up, smell the concrete.

re: Clark

by Joe

Tue Nov 09, 2004 16:38

There are something like 100,000 people in Falluja at the moment and the US is claiming to be facing 3,000 'terrorists'. That would leave some 97,000 people capable of writing such a letter - it says something that you are incapable of spotting this yourself.

I'm quite interested in any further information on who the Al-Fallujah Shura Council. Is Shura a different version of writing Shora, the Shora Councils in the Iranian revolution and the post 1991 Iraq uprising were workers councils.

BTW the women in Baghdad who does the riverbend blod has as usual really captured the horror of what is going on. Go to http://www.riverbendblog.blogspot.com/ and scroll down to the story headed 'Some terrorists' a brief extract follows but go and look it up, its very worth reading

"“I hope everyone is ok…” I offered tentatively. Umm Ahmed focused for a moment on me and shook her head, “Well, last week we buried our neighbor Umm Najib and her two daughters. They were sleeping when a missile fell in the garden and the house collapsed.”

“And my windows were broken…” Harith suddenly added, excitedly, then disappeared again behind his mother.

“The windows were broken and the front door was blown in. We were all ok because ever since the war we’ve all been sleeping in the living room.” Umm Ahmed explained, automatically, like she had told the story a hundred times"

..

Well, at least everyone is safe… you were very wise to come here.” My mother offered. “Your children are fine- and that’s what’s important.”

This phrase didn’t have quite the effect we expected. Umm Ahmed’s eyes suddenly flowed over and in a moment, she was crying freely. Sama frowned and gently took the baby from her mother’s arms, rising to walk him around in the hallway. My aunt quickly poured a glass of water out for Umm Ahmed and handed it to her, explaining to us, “Ahmed, her fourteen-year-old son, is with his father, still in Falloojeh.”

“I didn’t want to leave him…” The glass of water shook in her hands. “But he refused to leave without his father and we got separated last minute as the cars were leaving the city…”

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