Iraqi Association comment on Chilcot

PRESS RELEASE 31 January 2010

Iraq Inquiry Debate

Chilcot inquiry must also highlight the chaos and havoc in Iraq post 2003 conflict. It was the result of lack of a strategy which led to anarchy and regrouping of extremists. “The failure of ‘what happens next’ was a salient feature of the conflict, and lack of planning added further sectarian tension, murders and looting in Iraq. It was followed by fleeing thousands of skilled Iraqi refugees, and hundreds of Iraqi academics were eliminated.” Said Jabbar Hasan of Iraqi Association in Hammersmith, London.

War is about death and destruction, Iraqi people have suffered enough. Let us leave aside for the moment the legality of the war, a group of lawyers should not become arbiters, but the history of the bloody regime and sequence of factual events will judge that.

“Iraqi women and children are paying for the cost of the war, with thousands of widows and orphaned children without support and attention. The enquiry must highlight the plight of Iraqi people, not just its legal nicety.

“How many ‘international laws’ did Saddam’s regime have to break before the world community decided to enforce its will?” Said Jabbar Hasan of Iraqi Association.