{"id":1019917,"date":"2023-03-08T13:33:01","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T13:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/?p=138514"},"modified":"2023-03-08T13:33:01","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T13:33:01","slug":"sanctions-on-syria-australias-complicity-in-policide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/03\/08\/sanctions-on-syria-australias-complicity-in-policide\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanctions on Syria: Australia\u2019s Complicity in Policide"},"content":{"rendered":"
In 1998, the United Nation\u2019s humanitarian coordinator in Iraq, Denis Halliday, resigned in protest against UN Security Council sanctions on Iraq, using the term \u2018genocide\u2019 when he explained reasons for his resignation<\/a>.<\/p>\n Before Halliday\u2019s resignation, the US ambassador to the UN, Madeleine Albright had been asked if she thought the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children from US sanctions were worth it. She replied<\/a>: \u201dI think that is a very hard choice, but the price, we think, the price is worth it.\u201d<\/p>\n Australia\u2019s strategic allies in the UNSC – America and Britain – had voted for the sanctions on Iraq, while Russia, France and China abstained: no country used its veto power to oppose them, so they became law.<\/p>\n