Blair & Bush Holocaust Commission & Denial

HOLOCAUST DENIAL is repugnant because it denies the horrendous suffering of those who died; adds to the continuing suffering of their surviving families and descendants; and threatens repetition of like atrocities because History ignored or denied yields History repeated. Notwithstanding issues of freedom of speech, denial of the Jewish Holocaust is so repugnant to some countries particularly affected by this catastrophe that it is illegal to deny the actuality of the Jewish Holocaust (6 million victims) in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Israel and Switzerland. Indeed France and Belgium are variously extending this crime of holocaust denial to include denial of the World War 1 Armenian Genocide (1.5 million victims).

The post-1950 Muslim Holocaust involving 0.6 billion post-1950 excess deaths (avoidable deaths, deaths that did not have to happen) in the Muslim World (as estimated from UN Population Division data ) is of course IGNORED by the First World-dominated world, as is the post-1950 Third World Holocaust involving 1.1 billion avoidable deaths.  These horrendous excess death statistics for Spaceship Earth make a compelling case for sanctions against  holocaust denial in general.

One can well understand the legitimate upset throughout the world over the current conference about the World War 2 Jewish Holocaust in Teheran, Iran. However the criticism of this conference by British PM Blair is the height of hypocrisy because, while Blair has admitted and apologized for the 19th century Irish Famine that killed 1 million and exiled a further 1.5 million people, he has certainly NOT done the same in relation to the World War 2 man-made famine in British-ruled Bengal that killed 4 million people. This atrocity (that may have been due to a deliberate scorched earth policy to protect British-ruled India from Japanese invasion) was associated with a Bengal 1940s demographic deficit of 10 million and horrendous civilian and military sexual abuse of starving women and girls (see: here) -Blair War on Terror (more realistically a War on Women, a War on Women and Children or more specifically still, a war on Asian Women and Children and a War on Muslim Women and Children). Indeed as outlined below both Bush and Blair are guilty of both Holocaust Commission and Holocaust Denial.

Bush & Blair Holocaust Commission

In October 2006 a top US medical epidemiology research group from a top department in a top US university (Johns Hopkins) published a peer-reviewed paper in the top medical journal The Lancet in which they estimated 655,000 (0.7 million) post-invasion excess deaths in Occupied Iraq. This estimate was in good agreement with 3 other estimates from 3 other data sets yielding post-invasion excess death estimates in the range 0.6 million to 0.8 million (see MWC News ). If one uses the UN-derived  "annual death rate" figures for Iraq's impoverished but PEACEFUL neighbours Syria and Jordan as a baseline, the post-invasion excess deaths in Occupied Iraq total 0.9 million.

Using this latter figure for Iraq and a UN-derived estimate for Afghanistan, the post-invasion excess deaths in Occupied Iraq and Occupied Afghanistan total 0.9 million and 2.1 million, respectively – a total of 3.0 million deaths, 1,000 (one thousand) times the number of people murdered on 9/11. These estimates are consonant with independent UN data on post-invasion under-5 infant deaths, currently 0.4 million and 1.7 million, respectively, for Occupied Iraq and Occupied Afghanistan. (see MWC News ).

These horrendous excess deaths have arisen through war, invasion, violence and occupation PLUS the deliberate refusal of the Occupying Powers to provide the life-sustaining requisites demanded unequivocally of Occupiers by the Geneva Conventions (see Articles 55 and 56 in particular ). Thus under Blair and Bush, the “annual total per capita medical expenditure” permitted by the merciless  Occupiers in Occupied Iraq and Occupied Afghanistan are about $58 and $16, respectively (see: MWC NEWS). It is important to read the actual words of the Geneva Convention:

Article 55

To the fullest extent of the means available to it the Occupying Power has the duty of ensuring the food and medical supplies of the population; it should, in particular, bring in the necessary foodstuffs, medical stores and other articles if the resources of the occupied territory are inadequate …

Article 56

To the fullest extent of the means available to it, the Occupying Power has the duty of ensuring and maintaining, with the cooperation of national and local authorities, the medical and hospital establishments and services, public health and hygiene in the occupied territory, with particular reference to the adoption and application of the prophylactic and preventive measures necessary to combat the spread of contagious diseases and epidemics. Medical personnel of all categories shall be allowed to carry out their duties …