Fallujah

by Jonathan Holmes

The verbatim play "Fallujah", starring Samanthan Morton and with a score by Nitin Sawney, is set to be this year's Guantanamo. This sourcebook documents the testimony that forms the basis of the play, from Iraqi civilians, NGOs, politicians, US and UK military, and journalists involved in the three attacks on Fallujah. It makes a strong case - based on unpublished evidence gathered by Dr Scilla Elworthy of Peace Direct (and a Nobel Peace-Prize nominee) - that the US military should be hauled up before the ICC for war crimes. This book will provide the key to the way the verbatim material was put together, to reveal the facts behind the play's fictional form. Also published here is an essay by the playwright and director Jonathan Holmes, and Scilla Elworthy, putting forward the case behind the research and making public the atrocities carried out by the Americans.

288 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

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[Syeda · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is very resourceful and informative. But it's my shortcoming that I have a lack of interest in nonfiction books. So I sort of had to roughly skim the book. But overall it is a very good book. I like the way it represented the less privileged people; and when I say 'less privilaged', I mean that the world doesn't see their sufferings, maybe the world simply doesn't care. The book beautifully portraits how the United States has been abusing the use of their power on the weak, on Muslim countries, on innocent civilians; how they broke 70 Geneva conventions on their war with Iraq. Maybe they still do, perhaps not with Iraq, but with another country.