A name that lives in infamy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1638785,00.html
The destruction of Falluja was an act of barbarism that ranks alongside
My Lai, Guernica and Halabja
Mike Marqusee
Thursday November 10, 2005
The Guardian
One year ago this week, US-led occupying forces launched a devastating
assault on the Iraqi city of Falluja. The mood was set by Lt Col Gary
Brandl: "The enemy has got a face. He's called Satan. He's in Falluja.
And we're going to destroy him."
The assault was preceded by eight weeks of aerial bombardment. US
troops cut off the city's water, power and food supplies, condemned as
a violation of the Geneva convention by a UN special rapporteur, who
accused occupying forces of "using hunger and deprivation of water as a
weapon of war against the civilian population". Two-thirds of the
city's 300,000 residents fled, many to squatters' camps without basic
facilities.
Mike Marqusee
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Falluja
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