ICRC (Red Cross) blasts 'inhumanity' of Falluja battles

[Dover]

ICRC blasts 'inhumanity' of Falluja battles


Saturday 20 November 2004, 16:33 Makka Time, 13:33 GMT

The International Committee of the Red Cross has criticised the humanitarian toll of the Falluja assault while an Iraqi relief agency has removed 24 corpses for burial outside the war-ravaged town.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) slammed the "utter contempt" for humanity shown by all sides in Iraq amid fierce fighting in Falluja. Residents who fled the city gathered at a cemetery near the town of al-Saqlawiya, north of Falluja, in an attempt to identify the bodies. The Central Committee for Relief Aid transported the corpses by truck to the cemetery.

Fighting continues in Falluja, despite claims by US marines that they have wiped out "insurgents".

Pierre Kraehenbuehl, the ICRC's director of operations, said, "We are deeply concerned by the devastating impact that the fighting in Iraq is having on the people of that country.

"As hostilities continue in Falluja and elsewhere, every day seems to bring news of yet another act of utter contempt for the most basic tenet of humanity: the obligation to protect human life and dignity," he said.

"For the parties to this conflict, complying with international humanitarian law is an obligation, not an option," Kraehenbuehl said in an unusually tough statement by the relief agency...cont'd

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/95940B08-DCE4-4047-958E-88D0AF574ACE.htm

[daleo]

1. Careful Red Cross, or Bush will brand you a terrorist enabler

He doesn't cotton to you Euro-peons anyway. Especially when you steal the sign of the red cross, which he believes should represent a bloody crusade against infidels.

[Erika]

2. Bush will label the Red Cross as a Terrorist Organization

End of question. You could either blindly back the neocon facism of Bush, or be called a terrorist. As he brags, it's his way or the hiway. God has given him these powers. Ask Bush's Mullahs.