[antiwar-van] For immediate release: MAWO condemns the torture and murder of Iraqi people!

[Kira Koshelanyk]

Mobilization Against War and Occupation www.mawovancouver.org / mawoinfo at yahoo.ca



For Immediate Release:


May 20, 2004


US/UK Out of Iraq! End the Occupation! End the torture of Iraqis! Unconditional Self-Determination for Iraqis!

  Mobilization Against War and Occupation Condemns occupying US/UK forces abuse, torture and murder of Iraqi people.
  In its tradition of torture and murder, the US occupying forces have continued their brutal attacks on the people of Iraq this week by killing more than 40 people following a wedding party 60 miles west of Baghdad. At 3:00AM on Wednesday May 19th, US helicopters fired missiles while soldiers on the ground shelled the homes of the families joined that night at the wedding ceremony. News agencies report that 42 are dead in the small, remote village of Mukaradeeb; of those 11 were women and 14 children. Further, the US/UK occupation is losing even more legitimacy as additional heinous photos and videos of prisoner torture at the hands of US soldiers are released to the press. 
  Not only have the US/UK Coalition forces carried out a campaign of devastating Iraq's infrastructure, architecture, and the physical life of the country but the recent explosion of the prisoner abuse scandal and the wedding party attack has shown even more that an integral part of the occupiers strategy in this case has been to humiliate and destroy the minds and spirits of Iraqi people, to try to destroy their will to resist. As the demoralization of US soldiers increases due to the failure of their occupation and suppression campaign, the senseless massacres of the Iraqi people also increases. 
  Mobilization Against War and Occupation joins with anti war, social justice and humanitarian groups worldwide in demanding an end to the torture and the massacres and an end to the criminal occupation of Iraq. Iraq for Iraqis; self determination is a basic human right and must not be denied any longer! 
  STOP THE TORTURE AND MURDER OF IRAQI PEOPLE 
  END THE OCCUPATION OF IRAQ! 
  UNCONDITIONAL SELF-DETERMINATION FOR IRAQIS!
For More Information, Contact:

Shannon Bundock: 778-891-1470 

Kira Koshelanyk: 778-881-6156

Co-Chairs, Mobilization Against War and Occupation

www.mawovancouver.org

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*The Council of Shia Muslim Communities in BC (CSMC) (in collaboration with United Muslims, Muslim Canadian Federation and other religious and human rights groups) are calling an emergency demonstration "Protesting the American Occupation of Iraq and the mistreatment of Iraqi Prisoners" - Monday May 24, 2004 from 3-5pm @ Vancouver Art Gallery - ALL SHOULD ATTEND THIS IMPORTANT EVENT more info: CSMC - 604 603 7478

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