[NYTr] Boyle on "Swimming Up the Tigris" by Barbara Aziz

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Sent by Francis A. Boyle - Sep 11, 2007

"Swimming Up the Tigris" 
by Dr. Barbara Nimri Aziz


Brief Review by Professor Francis A. Boyle
University of Illinois College of Law
 
Based upon two decades of courageous and dangerous reporting
out of Iraq, Dr. Barbara Nimri Aziz has carefully constructed a
devastating human account of the genocidal impact that the 12-year-long
economic sanctions regime exerted upon the innocent people of that
country at the behest of the United States and the United Kingdom with
the complicity of the United Nations.  

Her searing personal portraits must be added to the cold statistics of
about 1.5 million Iraqis silently exterminated by the U.S., the U.K.
and the U.N. during this period. This first-rate anthropological
case-study of "the rape of Iraq" by the U.S., the U.K. and the U.N
should be read and contemplated by all compassionate human beings.  

Prospectively, if anyone wants to understand the reasons for the
ferocity of indigenous resistance to the military occupation of Iraq by
the U.S., the U.K., and the U.N. since 2003, Dr. Aziz's compelling book
is an excellent place to start.