BUILT IN BEITH TO BOMB BAGHDAD

4th June
INTERNATIONAL DAY OF CHILDREN VICTIMS OF AGGRESSION

Appalled by the great number of innocent Palestinian and Lebanese children victims of Israel's acts of aggression, on 19 August 1983, the United Nations General Assembly decided to commemorate 4 June of each year as the International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression. It reminds people that throughout the world there are many children suffering from different forms of abuse, and there is an urgent need to protect the rights of children.
 
 

Iraqi dying boy"That children must suffer to such an extent because of perverse war games is a severe indictment against adults and those that orchestrated the war without assessing its potential consequences on that country's civilian population." - Dr. Cesar Chelala speaking on Iraq, June 2005.
 

Dr Ali Hameed Rashid, is a neuropsychiatrist and Iraq's leading authority on post traumatic stress disorder. Doctors think there's not a single child in Iraq who isn't suffering some degree of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which has a wide variety of symptoms.
 

DSDA

Andrew Whiteley, Director Business Development at Defence Storage and Distribution Agency:

"Our Defence Munitions Centres (DMCs) at Beith and Gosport have been involved in the assembly, integration, testing and in-Service support of complex munitions for a number of years. The two DMCs are now accepted as an essential part of the overall production and support process for some of the UK's main sea and air launched weapons systems."

"DSDA's warehouses are all within secure sites and are located at the 'military gate' - the point of delivery into the military supply chain for support to operations. With our ability to process orders round the clock, every day of the year, and with delivery from our warehouse to the military gate measured in minutes, the operational advantages - to our industry customers and to front line commands - are obvious."

"The commercial advantages that DSDA offers to industry customers and to defence IPTs are equally clear, and have been confirmed by the award of a series of contracts from key defence Prime Contractors."

Prime contractors include huge arms companies the likes of MBDA as well as BAE Systems infamous for allegations of corruption and selling to countries with appalling human rights records. See CAAT website for information on these companies.
 

And the law...

UK Attorney General's legal advice concerning War with Iraq, made public April 28, 2005
http://www.acronym.org.uk/docs/0504/doc05.htm

The forbiddance of the use of force is a fundamental rule of International Law. Force may only be used in self-defence in response to an actual or according to some an imminent armed attack.

Nuremberg Principle 6 (a) defines a Crime against Peace as...
"Planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression, or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances, or participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of any of the acts mentioned."

The International Court Statute also makes it explicit that preparation for war crimes is itself a war crime for which a person shall be criminally responsible within the jurisdiction of the court.
 

"The actions they took on 25th April 2005 cannot be said to be lawful. It is not the law of Scotland as regards the doctrine of necessity that even if the law is being broken by the production of missiles at DMC Beith for use in Iraq as the Apellants contend, and not being enforced by public institutions (such as members of Parliament and the Police as the Second Apellant in particular contends) that individuals have the right to seek to enforce the law, notwithstanding what they do would otherwise be criminal."
 
- The opinion at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court regarding people convicted of a Breach of the Peace, for having, along with others, peacefully blockaded DMC Beith. An MoD officer stated in evidence that production was stopped for the whole day.
 

The Children of Iraq Have Names

by David Krieger, November 1, 2002

The children of Iraq have names.
They are not the nameless ones.

The children of Iraq have faces.
They are not the faceless ones.

The children of Iraq do not wear Saddam´s face.
They each have their own face.

The children of Iraq have names.
They are not all called Saddam Hussein.

The children of Iraq have hearts.
They are not the heartless ones.

The children of Iraq have dreams.
They are not the dreamless ones.

The children of Iraq have hearts that pound.
They are not meant to be statistics of war.

The children of Iraq have smiles.
They are not the sullen ones.

The children of Iraq have twinkling eyes.
They are quick and lively with their laughter.

The children of Iraq have hopes.
They are not the hopeless ones.

The children of Iraq have fears.
They are not the fearless ones.

The children of Iraq have names.
Their names are not collateral damage.

What do you call the children of Iraq?
Call them Omar, Mohamed, Fahad.

Call them Marwa and Tiba.
Call them by their names.

But never call them statistics of war.
Never call them collateral damage.

 
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