The Q&A Panel for Monday 7 June 2010 consists of Kevin Sheedy - footy legend ; Chris Bowen - Financial Services Minister ; Scott Morrison - Shadow Immigration Minister; Samah Hadid – a young Australian Muslim woman and a UN Youth representative; Heath Ducker - inspiring young lawyer; and Pru Goward - former journalist now Liberal state MP (see “Q&A”: http://www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda/ .
1. Question for Samah Hadid: 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?
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 .
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 ).
2. Question for panel: the Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has described people trying to find safe haven for desperate refugees as “scum of the earth who should rot in hell”. How then do you describe the US Alliance, Australian and racist Zionist warmongers who created 20 million Muslim refugees (half of them children) in the first place?
Answer – words fail, but clearly those complicit in generating 20 million Muslim refugees are far, far worse than any so-called “people smugglers”.
Refugees from the Occupied Palestinian, Iraqi and Afghan Territories alone have totalled 7 million, 5-6 million and 3-4 million, respectively, plus a further 2.5 million Pashtun refugees generated in NW Pakistan by Obama’s murderous war expansion policies (for details see “Muslim Holocaust, Muslim Genocide”: http://sites.google.com/site/muslimholocaustmuslimgenocide/ ).