Under the Coalition, by 2002 the Afghan opium poppy cultivation area had jumped from 3% to 38% of the World total and Afghan opium production was 76% of the World total.  By 2004, the Afghan opium poppy acreage had jumped to 67% of the World total and Afghan opium production was 86% of the World total. The US and its Coalition allies (notably the UK and Australia) have a clear complicity in the rapid restoration of the Afghan opium industry to World domination and are accordingly complicit in an estimated post-9/11 opioid-related death toll  of 0.4 million (the World), 40,000-60,000 (the US), 3,200 (the UK), 2,000 (Australia) and 1,200 (Scotland).

The US rejects the authority of the International Criminal Court over US citizens but other Coalition countries (notably the UK and Australia) are subject to this jurisdiction for crimes against humanity such as passive genocide of civilians in contravention of the Geneva Conventions and massive complicity in 0.4 million post-9/11 global opioid-related drug deaths. However ALL Coalition leaders and their associates are subject to the laws of their own countries for criminal complicity in the post-9/11 opioid-related deaths of their own citizens. Indeed this complicity in mass mortality extends to their failure to control other death-dealing agents. Thus each year 5 million die from the consequences of legal tobacco smoking (annual world market US$1,000 billion), 1.8 million die from largely legal alcohol consumption (annual world market about US$900 billion) and 0.2 million die from illicit drug use (annual world market US$800 billion).

A young Australian Nguyen Tuong Van is currently awaiting execution in Singapore for his part as a “mule” in transmitting 0.4 kilograms of heroin, a small part of the deadly global burden of heroin deriving largely from the annual opium production of about 4,200 metric tons in US-conquered Afghanistan. The Coalition leaders and their associates complicit in this deadly Afghan opium impost are free to continue their complicity in this and other criminal and deadly abuses (such as the passive genocide causing 1,000 avoidable under-5 infant deaths daily in Occupied Iraq and Afghanistan) - they have not yet been exposed for their criminal complicity, let alone arraigned, tried and punished. In contrast, Australian David Hicks, allegedly involved with forces of the Taliban government that uniquely outlawed the horrendously deadly trio of opium poppy cultivation, tobacco and alcohol in Afghanistan, has been abusively detained without trial for 4 years by the US authorities at Guantanamo Bay. 

Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity. Lying by omission and commission has permitted the criminal US-led invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, continuing Coalition passive genocide in the Occupied Iraqi and Afghan Territories, the re-establishment of Afghan opium production and 0.4 million post-9/11 drug deaths. This has been written in the public interest to expose a “War on Terror” that involves gross violations of the UN Charter, the Geneva Conventions and the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights and which is in reality a war on women and children, truth, reason and justice.

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