10 septembre<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abFour years after a US-led invasion that was sold to the public partly on humanitarian grounds, Iraqis are suffering from a man-made catastrophe comparable in scope to the tragedy in Darfur.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe plight facing Iraqis is as significant (as Darfur), says Margarette Wahlstrom, deputy head of the UN’s aid coordination arm Ocha.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbComparisons between emergencies are difficult but in terms of displaced people alone, Iraq’s crisis, with 4m displaced people, is double that of Darfur. For Iraq to be described in similar terms as Sudan whose plight has mobilised a new generation of human rights activists is striking testament to how bad the situation has become.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbIn early 2003, before US forces crossed the border from Kuwait, Iraqis may have thought things could not get much worse. A crippling conflict with Iran, followed by the first Gulf war and a decade of sanctions, had crippled the economy and left many millions dependent on food handouts.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbBut, anecdotally at least, the situation in mid-2007 is now even more dire than in 2003. As far as children’s living conditions go, they are worse now than immediately prior to the war, says Claire Hajaj, who works for Unicef, the children’s agency, in Amman.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbOxfam, the international aid agency, said in a recent report that 8m Iraqis were in urgent need of emergency aid, while many more are living in poverty, without basic services, and increasingly threatened by disease and malnutrition. If people’s basic needs are left unattended, this will only serve to further destabilise the country.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbIraqis are fleeing their homes in their millions, in the largest Middle East population movement since the creation of Israel. Jennifer Pagonis, spokesperson for the UN refugee agency, says the monthly rate of displacement has reached more than 60,000 people.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbMore than 2m Iraqis are displaced inside Iraq, and struggling to survive. Syria estimates that it now hosts more than 1.4m Iraqis, while Jordan has between 500,000 and 750,000. Both countries’ social services are overwhelmed, and even those Iraqi refugees who once had resources say their money is running out.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tLa r\u00e9plique pourrait \u00eatre aussit\u00f4t que l’intervention en Irak est de conception am\u00e9ricaniste, et presque exclusivement am\u00e9ricaniste, donc beaucoup trop ax\u00e9e sur l’aspect militaire. Cette r\u00e9plique, qui se voudrait une d\u00e9fense, est en effet compl\u00e8tement acceptable sauf qu’elle vaut comme explication centrale du mal d\u00e9nonc\u00e9 et nullement comme argument pol\u00e9mique. Elle se suffit alors compl\u00e8tement \u00e0 elle-m\u00eame. C’est justement la conception am\u00e9ricaniste qui est en cause ici, d’une fa\u00e7on fondamentale ; et il est difficile de nier, quand on voit la forme de l’intervention occidentale en Afghanistan, qu’elle n’inspire pas le reste. A cet \u00e9gard, nous sommes am\u00e9ricanis\u00e9s. D’ailleurs, pour l’essentiel, nous r\u00e9clamons cette am\u00e9ricanisation comme une chose b\u00e9n\u00e9fique, comme une chose urgente, comme une chose d\u00e9finitive, et cela nos consciences humanitaires en t\u00eate avec comme devise le jugement de Vaclav Havel sur l’attaque du Kosovo en avril 1999 (\u00abdes bombardements humanitaires<\/em>\u00bb). <\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tLa comparaison Darfour-Irak est bienvenue \u00e0 l’heure des agitations extraordinairement virtualistes de Washington. Comme disait l’un de nos grands inspirateurs, nous ne sommes pas la solution du probl\u00e8me, nous sommes le probl\u00e8me. Parlant du gouvernement, le grand philosophe Ronald Reagan qui a \u00e9clair\u00e9 de sa douce lumi\u00e8re la fin du XX\u00e8me si\u00e8cle \u00e9tait pr\u00e9monitoire sans le savoir.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tIl est bon, du point de vue de la symbolique que nous affectionnons tant, que ces nouvelles nous soient connues, sur ce site, avec le d\u00e9calage du \u00e0 notre lenteur d’intervention, un 11 septembre. C’est notre fa\u00e7on de c\u00e9l\u00e9brer l’anniversaire.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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\tMis en ligne le 11 septembre 2007 \u00e0 06H12<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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