Ecocide and Genocide in Iraq: International Law, the Marsh Arabs, and Environmental Damage in Non-International Conflicts

In the 1991 Gulf War, Iraqi forces set fire to 600 of Kuwait's oil wells and damaged 175 more; at least 6 million bbl of oil were deliberately discharged into the Persian Gulf. In the wake of an unsuccessful Shiite rebellion that same year, Saddam Hussein's government also drained the mars...

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Published in:Colorado journal of international environmental law and policy 2004-01, Vol.15 (1), p.1-1
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