Images of war and sanctions

To mark the 5th anniversary of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Voices UK has printed five of Emily John’s anti-war images as A3 posters

The set of five posters costs £5 (incl. p+p). Please send payment (cheques payable to Voices in the Wilderness) to: Voices UK, 5 Caledonian Rd, London N1 9DX.

All images are by Emily Johns and are not to be reproduced without permission.

Victory palms
Since the most recent invasion of Iraq in 2003, over a million Iraqis have been killed. There has also been a bombing war on the date groves of Iraq, the source of life, the symbol of victory; this image was engraved for Voices after one such attack in early 2008.

Your company killed my child
This engraving was made for a British Aerospace AGM. In the 1990s BAe were earning their shareholders large profits through the sale of Hawk fighter aircraft to the Indonesian government. These aircraft contributed to the killing of a third of the population of East Timor. One of the UK’s leading war profiteers BAe has made a fortune out of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Afghan Woman
This papercut was made in 2007 for a Voices in the Wilderness sticker campaign. Afghanistan is a land of beautiful people mutilated by decades of bombs.

Basra - between bombing and sanctions
This engraving was made in 1999. Iraqis were suffering from the effects of the UN sanctions which caused the health services, the economy and civilian infrastructure to collapse, and the deaths of hundreds of thousands of children. In January 1999 the UK/US bombed the poor al-Jumhuriya neighbourhood in Basra killing 17 people, including 10 children, injuring about 100, and damaging or destroying 45 houses.

Haditha
This engraving was made in 2006. It is a single panel from a triptych that includes all the people massacred by US troops in a row of houses in Haditha, western Iraq. Over several hours the soldiers killed child by child, family by family.