PR:25/Arb Sec. 10-12-2004
Doc: 2/11/2004
Dr.Muorad Ghaleb President of the Afro Asian Peoples' Solidarity Organization issued the following Statement on behalf of the Permanent Secretariat:
The US occupation forces and the Iraqi forces launched fierce attacks on the Iraqi city of Al-Fallujah using tanks, armoured vehicles, heavy and light artillery and aircraft, that is using all means of destruction to besiege citizens and mercilessly kill the armed and unarmed civilians.
In other words, they embarked on massive genocide and war crimes involving killing both the sick and doctors, destroying hospitals, killing helpless wounded people, destroying houses and storming places of worship. Thus the US forces are violating all international laws on conditions in countries under occupation and human rights conventions.
Meanwhile, the US leadership is claiming that all these operations are against the resistance and are for the liberation of Iraq. However, the truth is that there would have been no resistance had there been no occupation. The resistance is closely associated with occupation. On out part, we reject the violence against the Iraqi people and foreign civilians in the name of resistance. We reject the violence that claims the lives of hundreds of civilians on the streets, in markets and at schools. We reject the violence that cuts the necks of the innocent and trades in hostages. We reject the violence against Shiites, Sunnis or churches, as a matter which triggers sectarian rifts.
All these sectarian acts and similar ones involving the destruction of the Iraqi people's infrastructure and vital utilities only serve the occupation and its interests. It also discredits the real resistance in the eyes of the world and radically produces a negative impact on the people's solidarity with the people of Iraq. In fact, these acts and the occupation forces are only two faces of the same coin.
We strongly support the real resistance of the occupation and its interests. We are against all the disturbances and instability affecting the lives of the Iraqi people but we support what creates disturbance and instability among the occupation forces.
The resistance should eventually serve a political orientation and lead to the termination of the occupation and the restoration of the Iraqi people's will in political matters and everyday affairs after Saddam Hussein had dealt them deadly blows and the invasion forces came to complete the task.
The occupation forces have started operations in Al-Ramady and elsewhere, which means that they are determined to carry out genocide operations against the Iraqi people.
As the Afro-Asian Peoples' Solidarity Organization condemns all these atrocious crimes, it demands a real intervention by the United Nations and giving it the upper hand in realizing Iraq's freedom, democracy and independent development. AAPSO also calls for the implementation of Resolution 1546 which provides for a pivotal UN role in Iraq and a termination of the so-called "transitional period" by free elections, a Legislative Council and a government elected by the people not later than December 2005 and provided that the pull out of the occupation troops starts at that date.
However, our experience with the violation of international legitimacy by the US and its allies sound an alarm warning against what they do with the UN resolution on Iraq.
Putting into operation the UN role and giving it the upper hand in Iraq will definitely play a role in the realization of the Iraqi people's independence, reconstruction and domestic democracy