August 1990 First Iraq War
November 1990 Genocidal sanctions imposed on Iraq
2000 Norman Finkelstein publishes "The Holocaust Industry", estimating the number of Iraqi children killed through sanctions at 1 million
2 June 2001 Brian Haw, anti-sanctions activist, moves to Parliament Square: "Stop Killing My Kids" reads his banner
October 2001 Afghan War ("Operation Enduring Freedom")
September 12 2002 1.7 million Iraqi children dead through sanctions, as reported in The Economist issue of that date
March 2003 Second Iraq War
March 2011 Brian Haw leaves Parliament Square, dies of lung cancer on 18 June, age 62
June 2020 31st anniversary of Tiananmen observed in all Western newspapers and media
Despite all the retroactive inhibition, as psychologists call successive memory-reducing events, despite all that has happened, the tenacity of this single memory is nothing short of a miracle. It recalls to mind the line by Shelley: "What gnat did they strain at here, after having swallowed all those camels?"
The silence and denial surrounding the Iraqi genocide stem from the costly aversion of the Western eye from its denial of "universal values" pushed by the Enlightenment. These values serve as fig-leaf for domination.
On the 30th anniversary of Tiananmen, as on every anniversary, The Economist, that vociferous and enthusiastic cheerleader for the bombing of Iraq, uttered the usual from the pulpit: "But if a Tiananmen anniversary ever does pass without a flicker of dissent, that would be a dangerous moment, setting up the Chinese nation, and not just its rulers, for a backlash across the democratic world. For the party's swaggering, authoritarian ways are a challenge to the universal values which help to define the West."
"The butcher of Beijing."
This was the scarlet-lettered headline announcing the passing away of Li Peng, the "public face" of Tiananmen. The Chinese could have retaliated by calling the Bushes "The Butchers of Baghdad".
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