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Topic History of: anti-Putin OZ mourns it's own merciless War Criminals
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Molan was one of the country’s most prominent war hawks. He is notorious for his direct command role in the US devastation of Iraq, particularly the massacres and levelling of the city of Fallujah in 2004—which has been buried in all the media tributes.
In ruling circles, Molan was highly valued for his long record of ruthless service to their imperialist interests, and his strident advocacy of the need to take a similar approach to military, ideological and political preparations for a frontline role in a potentially catastrophic US war against China.
He was also a key figure, among others, in the increasing militarisation of Australia’s political elite—one of a number of ex-military commanders elevated into parliament or high office over the past decade.
His service to Australian imperialism included being appointed as Australia’s military attaché in Indonesia amid the 1998-99 economic crisis that ended the three-decade US-backed military dictatorship of General Suharto. Molan formed a close relationship with the brutal Kopassus (special forces) general Prabowo Subianto, Suharto’s son-in-law, who is today Indonesia’s defence minister.
In 2004, Molan was deployed to enforce the barbaric US occupation of Iraq, where he was installed as deputy chief of operations of coalition forces. That gave him direct command over the savage suppression of Iraqis who rose up against the occupation in cities such as Fallujah, Ramadi, Tal Afar, Karbala, Najaf and Basra, as well as in the working-class suburbs of Baghdad.
Under Molan’s direction, the month-long siege of Fallujah became one of the most symbolic crimes of the ferocious US occupation. Until the 2003 invasion, Fallujah, home to the 300,000 people on the Euphrates River, was one of humanity’s oldest continuous urban settlements, and known as the “city of mosques.” By the end of 2004, unknown thousands of people had been killed or had fled. The city was left a depopulated rubble. Of its 200 mosques, 60 were destroyed or damaged, along with some 39,000 homes and other buildings.
Reporters described systematic bombardments of civilian districts, the flattening of homes, the killing of injured people, and other war crimes, leaving the stench of rotting flesh. There is documented evidence of the use of illegal white phosphorous weapons. Marjorie Cohn, professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, noted that the attack began with an act contravening international law: “They [US forces] stormed and occupied the Fallujah General Hospital, and have not agreed to allow doctors and ambulances to go inside the main part of the city to help the wounded, in direct violation of the Geneva Conventions.”
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