Question for Panel: UNICEF tells us that about 300,000 under-5 year old Afghan infants die each year because the US Alliance Occupier refuses to meet its Geneva Convention obligations to provide food and medicine to their conquered subjects “to the fullest extent of the means available to it”. To me, this is an Australian war crime – what do you think?
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Answer – it is an unforgivable Australian war crime.
Annual under-5 infant deaths in Occupied Afghanistan (population 27 million) = 311,000 as compared to 2,000 for Occupier Australia (population 22 million) (see UNICEF: http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/index.html ).
“Total expenditure on health per capita” in Occupied Afghanistan = US$29 as compared to US$3,122 for Occupier Australia (see WHO: http://www.who.int/countries/en/ ).
Articles 55 and 56 of the Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War both state that an Occupier is obliged to provide life-sustaining food and medical services to its Conquered Subjects “to the fullest extent of the mean available to it”: http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/y4gcpcp.htm .
Post-invasion under-5 infant deaths in Occupied Afghanistan total 2.4 million - 90% of these deaths have been avoidable and are due to US Alliance and Australian war crimes.
In Occupied Afghanistan the US Alliance is involved in war crimes, mass murder, mass infanticide, holocaust commission and genocide commission (as per Article 2 of the UN Genocide Convention: http://www.edwebproject.org/sideshow/genocide/convention.html ).
Silence kills and silence is complicity. Through non-reportage of this ongoing atrocity, the Australian ABC (Australia’s equivalent of the UK BBC) is an accessory to war crimes, mass murder, mass infanticide, holocaust commission, and genocide commission as well as holocaust ignoring and genocide ignoring (see “Australian ABC ignores holocaust and genocide atrocities”: http://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammedialying/australian-abc-ignores-huge-genocidal-realities amd “Mainstream Media lying”: http://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammedialying/home ).