“Oh yeah, look at those dead bastards,” says one crewman after multiple rounds of 30mm cannon fire left nearly a dozen bodies littering the street.
The appalling and distressing video leaked by WikiLeaks capturing the violent brutality against Iraqis in Baghdad. Words fail to express anger of watching the murderous intent of these imperialist ‘liberators’ of Iraq, massacring people with absolute no regard for human life, indeed collateral murder. And of course the US military try to cover-up this unprovoked attack on Iraqi civilians (the dead included Reuters employees) by blaming ‘insurgents’…
When not shooting down Iraqi civilians Britain is denying them entry. Iraqi artists are being denied entry for their own exhibition. It is the first exhibition of contemporary art from Iraq since the Gulf War but……
So it was dismaying for all parties to learn, less than a month before “Contemporary Art Iraq” was to open at Manchester’s Cornerhouse Art Gallery, that the UK Border Agency had denied all five artists entry into the country.
The reason? They could provide no valid bank statements. Proof of financial stability and a bank account in the applicant’s home country is a bureaucratic requirement for British visa authorities, but it is also, according to Iraqi experts, a very tall order in an occupied country with no banking infrastructure.
So Iraqis are invaded, bombed, killed, occupied, destitute, impoverished, oppressed …all in the name of ‘liberation’… with the added humilation of not being allowed to be part of their own exhibition because of UK racist immigration laws and Iraq occupied therefore in turmoil therefore no infrastructure…the bureaucrats want bloody bank statements…
Words do indeed fail me!
The artists denied entry include: Shaho Abdul Rahman, 36, a designer and painter, Azar Othman Mahmud, 22, an installation artist, Sarwar Mohamed, 37, a filmmaker, all from Sulaymaniyah; Falah Shakarchi, 45, a painter from Baghdad and Julie Adnan, 24, a photojournalist from Kirkuk.
I bet they would let in Bushmaster and Crazy Horse!