Carta ao primeiro-ministro Blair

Caro primeiro-ministro:

A revista médica Lancet publicou recentemente um estudo no qual estima o número de mortos iraquianos após a invasão em 98 mil. O mesmo estudo relatava que o risco de morte violenta entre os iraquianos é muito superior ao que era antes de a guerra principiar. O sr. rejeitou tais descobertas, mas não ofereceu nenhuma avaliação comparável da sua parte.

Como sabe o senhor, o seu governo é obrigado sob o direito humanitário internacional a proteger a população civil durante as operações militares no Iraque, e o sr. sistematicamente prometeu fazê-lo. Contudo, sem contar os mortos e feridos, ninguém pode saber que a Grã-Bretanha e seus parceiros de coligação estão a cumprir estas obrigações.

Nós portanto instamo-lo a que ordene criar uma comissão de inquérito independente e abrangente a fim de determinar com a maior precisão possível quantos iraquianos morreram ou foram feridos desde Março de 2003 — e a causa destas baixas.

O inquérito deveria ser independente do governo, conduzido de acordo com os métodos científicos aceites e sujeito a revisão de pares de modo a que todas as partes possam ter confiança no seus resultados. Ele deveria ser relatado ao parlamento e ao público enquanto as forças britânicas permanecerem no Iraque.

Atentantemente,

Air Marshal the Lord Garden KCB, Visiting Professor, Centre for Defence Studies, King's College London;
The Rt Hon the Lord Rea;
General Sir Hugh Beach GBE KCB MC, Former Master General of the Ordnance, British Army;
Sir Brian Barder, Former British Ambassador to Ethiopia, Poland and the Republic of Benin, and British High Commissioner in Nigeria and Australia;
Sir Stephen Egerton, Former Ambassador to Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Italy;
Robin Kealy, HM Diplomatic Service (retd) Ambassador to Tunisia 2001-2004;
Oliver Miles, Former Ambassador to Libya, Luxembourg and Greece;
Sir David Ratford, Deputy Political Director, FCO 1987-90, Ambassador to Norway 1990-94;
Lord Bishop of Coventry, Rt Rev Colin Bennetts, Chairman of the Church of England's Partnership for World Mission;
Iqbal Sacranie, Secretary General, Muslim Council of Britain;
Dr Daud Abdullah, Assistant Secretary General, Muslim Council of Britain;
Dr Rosemary Hollis;
Elizabeth Wilmshurst;
Bianca Jagger, Human rights campaigner, Council of Europe Goodwill Ambassador;
Tony Fletcher, PhD, President, International Society for Environmental Epidemiology 2004-5, Public and Environmental Health Research Unit, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine;
Professor Martin McKee, European Centre on Health of Societies in Transition, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine;
Professor James McEwen; Emeritus Professor in Public Health, University of Glasgow;
Klim McPherson, FFPH FMedSci, Visiting Professor of Public Health Epidemiology, Churchill Hospital, Oxford;
Jerry Morris, Emeritus Professor of Public Health, Public & Environmental Health Research Unit, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine;
Ian Roberts, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Heath, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine;
Dr Alex Scott-Samuel, Senior Lecturer in Public Health, University of Liverpool;
Gill Walt, Professor of International Health Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine;
Eileen O'Keefe, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy & Health Policy, London Metropolitan University;
Walter Armbrust, Director, Middle East Centre, St Antony's College, Oxford;
Alex Danchev, Professor of International Relations, University of Nottingham;
Dr Eric Herring; Senior Lecturer in International Politics, University of Bristol;
Dr Clive Jones, Institute for Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds;
Professor Colin McInnes, Director, Centre for Health and International Relations, University of Wales Aberystwyth;
Turi Munthe, Head, Middle East & North Africa Programme, Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies;
Dr Gerd Nonneman, Reader in International Relations & Middle East Politics, Lancaster University;
Martin Shaw, Professor of International Relations & Politics, University of Sussex;
Avi Shlaim, Professor of International Relations, St Antony's College Oxford;
Paul Williams, Lecturer in Security Studies, University of Birmingham;
Dr Eddie Coyle, Consultant in Public Health Medicine, Wales Centre for Health, Velindre NHS Trust, NHS Wales;
Philip Leach, Senior Lecturer in Law, London Metropolitan University;
Jonathan Rosenhead, Emeritus Professor of Operational Research, London School of Economics;
Professor John O'Keefe, FRS, FAMS, University College London;
Professor Tim Valentine, Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths College;
Richard Norman, Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of Kent;
Dr Mary Midgley, Moral Philosopher;
Dr Susie Orbach, Psychotherapist and writer, Visiting Professor, London School of Economics;
Harold Pinter, Writer;
Linda Grant, Writer;
Gillian Slovo, Writer;
Bishop of Oxford Richard Harries;
Labour peer Baroness Helena Kennedy QC.

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