Ziler you're a twit. :lol

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5 April 2000

Lists of 223 victims, including 46 convicted with political charges

Representative of Our Centre Meets

UN Special Rapporteur in Geneve

& Exposes New Atrocities by Saddams Regime

A representative of the Cenre For Human Rights of the Iraqi Communist Party held a meeting this morning in Geneve with Mr Andreas Mavrommatis, the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iraq, and discussed with him the continuing systematic mass physical liquidation of political prisoners and detainees - the Prisons Cleanup campaign - which is perpetrated by the dictatorial regime in Iraq since late 1997 and has claimed the lives of about 3000 citizens. This barbaric campaign has escalated in recent months, annihilating hundreds of innocent people in unprecedented ghastly atrocities.

Mr Mavrommatis was given lists of victims and information about these crimes which include the names and detailes of 223 citizens, including 46 people who had been convicted of political charges. The Centres representative drew attention to the fact that many of the victims of executions (as was the case in the massacre at Abu Ghraib Prison on 12/10/1999 which claimed the lives of 101 people) had been originally detained for their opposition to Saddams regime, on the basis of reports by organisations of the ruling party and Security directorates in their governorates, but were later falsely convicted of criminal charges and sentenced to death.

Mr Mavrommatis was informed at the meeting that the group of 58 prisoners who had been held in solitary confinement at Abu Ghraib prison (the Centre For Human Rights had sent him detailed information about their case) have been executed. This horrific massacre took place on 9 March 2000. Among these victims, 14 had been sentenced to death under political charges ranging from affiliation to opposition parties to participating in opposition activities. The rest had been sentenced under criminal charges.

The bodies of those charged with criminal offences were handed to their families. The bodies of political prisoners were removed, using vehicles belonging to the Special Security (headed by Saddams son, Qusay), to Al-Zahedi cemetery, near a village alongside the road from Baghdad to Hilla. They were buried there at night (9/3/2000).

The representative of the Centre also delivered to Mr Mavrommatis horrific details about two further massacres at Abu Ghraib prison:

* The first on 3/2/2000, when 21 political prisoners from al-Thawra district (in Baghdad) as well as Amara and Basra were executed. It was supervised by lieutenant colonel Hamed Alwan Thamer from the Special Security apparatus. The bodies of the victims were buried at night, in a mass grave at a camp of Saddams Fedayeen (a militia force headed by Saddams elder son, Uday) in Baghdad.

* The second took place on 12/2/2000, when 43 citizens were executed. 11 were charged with the crime of affiliation to the opposition and the rest were charged with crimes of violence and car theft. The bodies of political prisoners were not handed to their families, and were buried at night (12/2) at an unknown location in Baghdad.

The Centre For Human Rights had provided the Special Rapporteur at the end of March with the details of another atrocity which claimed the lives of 101 citizens on the evening of 12/10/1999, at Abu Ghraib prison. It was supervised by major Hashem Egab and lieutenant colonel Meilad Hajem Jumhour.

The Centres representative called for urgent action and decisive steps by the UN and its Secretary General Mr Kufi Annan, and the UN Human Rights Commission, to stop the mass executions in Iraq, and save the lives of hundreds of detainees and prisoners who are threatened with death at any moment.

He also conveyed to Mr Mavrommatis reliable information that there are now 73 citizens held in solitary confinement cells (for those sentenced to death) at Abu Ghraib Prison. Among them are political prisoners from the governorates of Basra, Qadiseyya, Muthanna and Babel. They have been held in detention since 1991 and were charged with participating in the popular uprising of March 1991.

The Centres representative put forward a number of concrete proposals to activate UNSCR 688 which deals with human rights in Iraq, and for developing an effective mechanism for human rights monitoring and investigation by the UN. He called for sending a fact-finding mission to investigate the vioations and inspect prisons and detention centres. Regimes officials responsible for these atrocities, headed by the dictator Saddam Hussein, must face trial before an international tribunal for committing crimes against humanity.

He also expressed the Centres support for efforts to investigate the violations of economic, social and cultural rights in Iraq, including those violations caused by the unjust international economic blockade imposed on our people and by the policies of the dictatorial regime.



One story of so many fucking stories I don't have the time nor desire to read every one. But you get the point...

You know Ziler I just saw another program on History channel last weekend. It had some neato footage of Hitler making a bold prediction that if the Jews got Germany into another world war that they would be exterminated from Europe. Then the program went on to talk about the unwritten authority (which apparently people spoke about after the war) Hitler gave his top officers to detain and exterminate all Jews. But yeah none of that happened either. Its propaganda and I didn't live there how the hell would I know.

Please do tell what drugs you're using I so want to live in the uncaring bliss you seem to achieve.