US Commits 'Sociocide' in Iraq: Deliberate Murder of A Whole Society

by max blunt
This week the World Socialist Web Site ran a three-part article, The US war and occupation of Iraq—the murder of a society by Bill Van Auken.

The series, bringing together facts and statistics drawn from the international media and a variety of studies and surveys, painted a horrifying picture of Iraqi society after more than four years of US-led war and occupation, preceded by more than a decade of lethal sanctions.

“Taken together,” the article argued, “US operations in Iraq have amounted to sociocide - the deliberate and systematic murder of an entire society.”

Here are certain of the series’ key findings:

— The US occupation is responsible for the death, displacement or disappearance of between 4 and 5 million Iraqis.....LINK