Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

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Here is why Saddam deserves what he is about to get:

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Human rights violations and Saddam Hussein's crimes

Alliance Internationale pour la Justice
[That's a France-based Human Rights Organization]
http://www.wadinet.de/News/archiv/iraq/nw923_violations.htm

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Below are some examples that illustrate the extremely serious nature of these violations:

** two bloody wars leading to the deaths of Iraqi civilians and inhabitants of neighbouring countries;

** elimination of one million people (5% of the population) since Saddam Hussein took power (this figure does not includes victims of wars with neighbouring countries). Not even the Sunni minority and his own family were spared;

** disappearance of 8,000 men in Kurdistan (Barzan region) and 10,000 Feyli Kurds;

** destruction of 4,500 Kurdish towns and villages;

** deportation of more than one million Kurds in southern Iraq and a quarter of a million Feyli Kurds to Iran;

** continuation of the policy of ethnic cleansing in Kurdish regions under Baghdad's control, such as Kirkuk, Sinjar, Khanaqin, Mandeli, Makhmour, Tuz and Mossul;

** destruction of more than 150 Assyro-Chaldean villages, along with their ancient monasteries and churches, and repression targeting the Turkoman minority;

**disappearance of more than 180,000 people during Anfal campaigns. UN Special Rapporteur Max Van der Stoel said that these campaigns were a form of genocide;

** massive deployment of chemical weapons (gas) against the Kurdish population in Halabja;

** deployment of more than 10 million anti-personnel mines in the Kurdish region (nearly 15,000 individuals have been killed or wounded since the end of the Gulf War);

** inhumane and degrading treatment (decrees legalising the amputation of various parts of the body);

** systematic torture, including the rape of women;

** beheading of women (at least 130 women were executed between June 2000 and April 2001 for alleged prostitution);

** destruction and systematic drainage of the marshlands of southern Iraq;

** summary executions (2000 prisoners in March 1998 in just one day in the Abu Greb prison as part of the 'prison cleansing' operation).

In humanitarian terms, despite various UN resolutions the Iraqi regime has used sanctions as weapons of repression and propaganda by taking its own people hostage.

Despite a steadily rising income under the 'food for oil' resolution, plus additional exports to neighbouring countries providing a heaven-sent source of non-UN-controlled income, the people of Iraq still have trouble surviving.


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