Over 5,000 Iraqi children die every month as a result of trade sanctions and the ongoing US/British military attacks. Sponeck resigned in protest from his UN post. Now he fears that Iraq might be attacked again.
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Hans von Sponeck: Lift the Sanctions on Iraq Over 6,000 Iraqis, mainly children, die every month as a result of trade sanctions and the ongoing US/British military attacks. Hans von Sponeck resigned in protest from his United Nations position as Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq that he held from 1998-2000. He now travels internationally, speaking in churches and schools, appealing for compassion and understanding of the plight of an innocent population. On the ground in Baghdad he observed schools without windows and books, and children dying of preventable diseases. Many illnesses are caused by contaminated water since treatment plants were systematically destroyed by US bombing.
Sponeck says that "It is overwhelmingly evident to me that the UN Security Council of today is a violator of the very laws that it helped to create to protect innocent civilians. I cannot agree with my former colleague, Richard Butler who argues that international law is available to everyone except Iraq. I think that's a scandal, and I think the media must point this out."
Hans von Sponeck spoke to high school students in the Bay Area. After his talk we shared a brief lunch where he remembered his father who taught him integrity. Sponeck's father was executed by the Nazis.
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