 Hello, my name is Dirk Adria-Ansens. I was one of the co-organizers of the World Tribunal on Iraq, and I was still a member of the Executive Committee of the Brussels Tribunal, which is in fact the continuation of the World Tribunal on Iraq, which started right after the invasion in 2003. If there was no network or organizations like us or like you, then history would tell the story of the people through the bombs. We want to tell the story of the people under the bombs, and we think it is necessary to bring these voices to the forefront. We have, I think, the best archive also of the deliberate murder of Iraqi academics. When Denis Holladay resigned in 1998, he characterized the economic sanctions imposed on Iraq as genocide, which it was, because if you bomb civilian infrastructure like sewage system, and you know that people are going to die because of that, that is biological warfare, and it's meant to kill people intentionally, and that's what, in fact, the United States and its allies have done. Iraq was a highly educated middle class. There were a lot of doctors, engineers and so on, who studied in the best universities worldwide, and they had a magnificent health and education system, which was considered as the best in the whole Middle East, and all that achievement was completely destroyed by this invasion. Mr. Paul Bremer, immediately when he came to Iraq, he ordered, he issued some hundred orders, which turned Iraq into a neoliberal state, you know, and he sold the assets of the Iraqi military, he sold the assets and privatized the Iraqi economy, and so not only were the people killed, but they were also plunged into misery and poverty. Immediately after the invasion, you know, the resistance of the Iraqi people started. Resistance that was characterized by the Bush administrations and Western governments and so on, as terrorists, but, you know, the Iraqi resistance was the only legal thing in the whole Iraq issue. Everything else, the invasion, the occupation, changing the laws and the occupation, what have you, this is all forbidden under international law, except the right to resist if your country is illegally invaded. And that's what the Iraqi people did, which spurred the Iraqi, the US government to take some measures, and they unleashed dead squads and a lethal dead squad policy onto the Iraqi people. So not only did the US government destroy the civilian infrastructure, but also the only people that would be capable of rebuilding their country, which is the middle class, and in fact, nothing in Baghdad has been rebuilt, nothing at all. There was a report of the David's Commission in Holland where the highest lawyers and judges gave an opinion at the request of the Dutch prime minister if the Iraqi invasion was legal, and they concluded that there was no adequate international legal mandate for the invasion of Iraq. I mean, where's the diplomacy? Everyone seems to have war plans, battle plans, but no one seems to have a peace plan.