'Iraq, A Population Silenced' - Report on Saddam Hussein's criminal insanity - {HRI 20060702-A1-V1.0.1}
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The attachment, that is enclosed (enclosed here, below the excerpt of
the HRI it belongs to) speaks for itself.
1. 'Iraq: A Population Silenced' - Dec 2002, public document from
the US House Armed Services Committee.
(Attachment 2. - issued separately now as {HRI 20060702-A2}- is
'THE SHADOW OF A MONSTER: "I was Uday Hussein's body double".')
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REFUSING to Invade Iraq, Constitutes Severe Crimes against Humanity
by Putin, Schroeder, Chirac, Jiang Zemin, etc.
2 July 2006
{HRI 20060702-V3.3.2-excerpt}
(Version 3.3.2
on 10 Sept 2006)
(Suitable for foreign
language students)
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What I did read below, TO ME sounds like a very clear and massive
indictment against (it is an official accusation of) those who could
and who were asked to - but who REFUSED TO -
END THE EVIL. (See Attachments 1. and 2.)
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It is an official and formal accusation of those who were, instead,
ridiculing and calling those "evil," who were and are handling evil,
and calling those - calling you and me that is -
"evil" FOR handling the evil;
yes, they are so calling those,
who are willing to, and who at times did, give their life
in order to stop the evil for us.
(...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...)
You also did not need laws and bilateral agreements in
order to help others at Earthquakes or Tsunamis, did you.
You naturally help. You help, because it is your
FEELING, it is your nature, and so it is with all
normal people.
But also there, Criminal Minds will try to
divert or block your help from reaching those
people who need it.
And they will try to make you accept their
lies, their reversals of truth and their
'Buddhistic' goals to eradicate you forever,
"so you never have to suffer again:" *(0)
Telling the world, that 'freeing you
from a torture cell in Husseins' Iraq,'
"is illegal," that "everybody is against
freeing you," and that "it is evil to
free you."
Criminal Minds, also those of Buddhism, have
everything in reverse. *(0)
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What was happening in Iraq, and what is happening now
in China, and in some other dictatorial countries,
is a million times worse than any natural disaster,
as a natural disaster lacks the intention and
practice of malice.
(See Attachments 1. and 2. below)
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This is about helping people,
and thus it is about your facing THE CRIMINALITY of those who
obstruct and who refuse to cooperate *(5)
in handling very, very severe Crimes against very many people.
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The claim of the licensed medical profession of being
"the ones that ARE helping people," is a carefully built
fallacy (a facade, a building of lies) *(1) and you will
find,
after you have shed the appropriate amount of tears
and have gone though various stages and outbursts of
amazement and utter incredulity when you look at and
are about to understand what you see,
that the licensed medical profession is NOT about facing
Criminality, at all. *(2)
You remove such obstructive people from any position of
authority, and you oppose and deny their claims of being
authoritative, as they clearly are only pretending to be so.
(See Attachments 1. and 2.)
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It is your natural desire to help people, so, do so! Maybe you will
even get the idea - who knows - to help me,
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Koos Nolst Trenite "Cause Trinity"
human rights philosopher and poet
'Men of all nations came
to listen to Solomon's wisdom,
sent by all the kings of the world,
who had heard of his wisdom.'
1 Kings 4:34
For the full version of this {HRI 20060702-V3.3.2}, the following
link is provided:
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.security.terrorism/msg/722e815a4d7f8617
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Footnotes:
(0) 'Penetrating and Exposing Hinduism and Buddhism'
{HRI 20060816-V5.0}
(16 August 2006 - Version 5.0 on 1 Nov 2006)
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.japan/msg/ccbd175e3fca1cdc
(1) 'The Dan Brown Code - The Trillion Dollar Question'
{HRI 20060610-V3.4}
(10 June 2006 - Version 3.4 on 10 July 2006)
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion.christian/msg/2721c03970946e56
(2) 'A Bottomless Money Drain: The Licensed Medical Trade - Medical
Research, Charities, Foundations, Universities And Hospitals
CONTEMPT Of Your Suffering And Of Mankind'
(13 February 2006 - Version 1.0.1 on 20 Feb 2006)
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.anthropology/msg/25fb3378ca8ce9dc
(5) 'Kofi Annan, the typical "sane Criminal" - one who, to "maintain"
a position (in the UN) protects and hides severe Criminals'
(8 June 2006 - Version 1.1 on 9 June 2006)
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics.org.un/msg/cffc79dde74820cd
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References (some few):
'Defining 'Destructive Coward' (Definition)'
{HRI 20050610-V3.1}
(10 June 2005 - Version 3.1 on 29 Jan 2006)
http://groups.google.com/group/human-rights-issues/msg/d5b63e73d61b3c9f
'Definition Of Insane - Relation To Humor' {HRI 20030205}
(5 Feb 2003 - slightly edited and links updated 26 May 2006)
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics.org.un/msg/99e8e53503038774
'If Pilate Had Provided King Solomon's Justice...'
{HRI 20041102-V1.3}
(2 November 2004 - Version 1.3 on 2 Apr 2005)
http://groups.google.com/group/human-rights-issues/msg/8a0076d89f741b32
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.anthropology/msg/10e1d33aa5888fe3
'About 'Intense Joy of Beautiful Hate' Living in Criminal Minds'
(29 June 2006 - Version 3.0 on 1 July 2006)
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.security.terrorism/msg/db9d5a30204de18a
'Sports, The Game of Not Facing Evil Individuals
- The Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Boycott'
{HRI 20060618-V1.4}
(18 June 2006 - Version 1.4 on 23 June 2006)
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.japan/msg/a880bf1ba370b9e5
'Kofi Annan, the typical "sane Criminal" - one who, to "maintain"
a position (in the UN) protects and hides severe Criminals'
(8 June 2006 - Version 1.1 on 9 June 2006)
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics.org.un/msg/cffc79dde74820cd
'North-Korea is managed by the Chinese Criminal government as a
front group for China, TO CREATE very costly trouble for you'
(21 June 2006) (version for China's Great Wall)
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics.usa.congress/msg/7f3a3f0fc6c10d03
'U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour is
Destructively Insane by Definition of {HRI 20030205}'
(23 June 2006)
http://groups.google.com/group/talk.politics.misc/msg/4deee3dc894eaf0e
'China NOT A VALID MEMBER of the United Nations Organization (UN,
UNO, ONU)'
{HRI 20060429-V2.1.2} - quotes {HRI 20060427-V1.1}
(29 April 2006 - Version 2.1.2 on 1 May 2006)
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.europe/msg/b753bf3df40e6a39
{HRI 20060429-V2.1.2-c} (in 'mainland' English)
(29 April 2006 - Version 2.1.2-c)
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.china/msg/d0bd2c13c146645f
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Attachments:
1. 'Iraq: A Population Silenced' - Dec 2002, public document from
the US House Armed Services Committee.
Issued separately: 2. 'THE SHADOW OF A MONSTER: "I was Uday
Hussein's body double"' - A telling report about Latif Yahia's
years of horror with Saddam's sadistic son Uday Hussein.
12 April 2003, by Lance Laytner © http://www.unison.ie
http://groups.google.com/group/human-rights-issues/msg/31bb60168eb83699
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1. 'Iraq: A Population Silenced' - Public document from the US House
Armed Services Committee
Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor,
December 2002.
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Executive Summary
In 1979, immediately upon coming to power, Saddam Hussein silenced all
political opposition in Iraq and converted his one-party state into a
cult of personality.
Over the more than 20 years since then, his regime has
systematically executed, tortured, imprisoned, raped, terrorized
and repressed Iraqi people.
Iraq is a nation rich in culture with a long history of
intellectual and scientific achievement. Yet Saddam Hussein has
silenced its scholars and doctors, as well as its women and
children.
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Iraqi dissidents [meaning, honest, caring and responsible
people] are tortured, killed, or disappear in order to deter
other Iraqi citizens from speaking out against the [crimes of
the] government or from demanding change.
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A system of collective punishment is implemented by torturing
entire families or ethnic groups for the acts of one dissident
[one honest, responsible and caring person].
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Women are raped - and often videotaped during rape, to blackmail
their families with the tape [playing on the strong sexual shame
and social taboos of that Arab culture].
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Citizens are publicly beheaded, and their families are required
to display the heads of the deceased [of those murdered] as a
warning to others who might "question the politics" [a warning
to those who want to stop and prevent the crimes] of this
regime on its people.
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Saddam Hussein was also the first "leader" to use chemical weapons
against his own population, silencing [murdering] more than sixty
villages or 30,000 citizens - with poisonous gas.
Saddam Hussein has tried to silence ethnic and religious minorities in
Iraq as well.
During the 'Anfal' Campaign of 1987-88, Saddam Hussein's regime
killed and tortured the Kurdish population.
Saddam's regime eliminated many Kurdish villages, and forced the
surviving Kurds into zones where he could control them.
His regime has suppressed the Shi'a Islamic community
through killings and arrests, and bans their Friday
prayers and books, in certain regions.
He has also targeted the citizens of other, neighboring nations,
killing and torturing Kuwaiti and Iranian citizens, among others.
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The Iraqi people are not allowed to vote to remove the government.
Freedom of expression, association and movement do not exist in Iraq.
The media is tightly controlled - Saddam Hussein's son owns the
daily Iraqi newspaper.
Iraqi citizens cannot assemble except in support of the
government.
Iraqi citizens cannot freely leave Iraq.
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The international community - including the United Nations
Organization and international non-governmental organizations -
has documented and repeatedly condemned this regime's horrific
[abuse of people, their appalling] record of abuse.
Saddam Hussein simply [desires to be as Criminal as he pleases and]
ignores the will of the rest of the world [and pays off the
Criminals].
Saddam Hussein has given the Iraqi people a terrible choice - to
remain silent - or face the consequences [of not being silent].
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Despite Saddam Hussein's regime's attempts to silence the Iraqi
people, their voices are still being heard:
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Al-Shaikh Yahya Muhsin Ja'far al-Zeini
On July 2, 1999, a young theology student in his late 20's,
named al-Shaikh Yahya, returned home to find that his father
and two brothers had been detained [taken prisoner]
'to serve as substitute prisoners'
until Saddam's secret police could arrest him, al-Shaikh.
Al-Shaikh Yahya was suspected of being a supporter of a
prominent Shi'a Islamic cleric,
whose murder [by the ruling Sunni Islam dictator, Saddam
Hussein] had set off protests [also amongst the students],
six months before.
The protests had been brutally suppressed by the regime's
security forces, and the subsequent crackdown still
continued.
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Seeing no other option, al-Shaikh Yahya submitted, and was
arrested and blindfolded and taken to the Saddam Security
Directorate building "for questioning."
After being forced to watch one of his friends being tortured,
the security officials took him to another room where he awaited
his own torture.
His recounting of what happened next, is chilling:
'They stripped me of my clothes and a security officer
said, "The person you saw, has confessed against you".
He said to me,
"You followers of (Ayatollah) [another Criminal Mind,
but from the opposite camp, from the Shia Islamic
faction, of] al-Sadr, have carried out acts harmful
to the security of the country, and they have been
distributing anti-government statements, coming from
abroad."
He asked if I have any contact with an Iraqi
religious scholar based in Iran who has been
signing these statements. I said "I do not
have any contacts with him" ...
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I was then left suspended (naked and handcuffed, with a board
between my elbows and knees, on two high chairs) ... My face was
looking upward. They attached an electric wire on my genitals
and the other end of the wire was attached to an electric motor.
One security man was hitting my feet with a cable. Electric
shocks were applied every few minutes and were increased.
I must have been suspended for more than an hour. I lost
consciousness. ...
They repeated this method (of torture) a few times.'
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Al-Shaikh Yahya was regularly subjected to electric shocks and
beating on his feet. For two months of his detention, he slept
on the floor
- with his hands tied behind his back and his face on the
floor.
According to his testimony, that was more unbearable
than the electric shocks.
He was also suspended from a window non-stop for three days
- once during that suspension, they attached a heavy
weight to his genitals.
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Five months later, al-Shaikh Yahya and twenty-one other
detainees were transferred to a separate "detention center,"
also in Baghdad.
He was detained - without charge or trial - for another four
months, until April 14, 2000, when he was released.
(Account taken from Amnesty International:
'IRAQ - Systematic torture of political prisoners'
- August 15, 2001)
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Al-Shaikh Yahya's experience was not an isolated event, but just one
example of how Saddam Hussein and his regime have systematically
abused Iraqis in order to silence their beliefs [their sense of
decency].
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"Traitors" Are Silenced
Since 1979, Saddam Hussein and his regime have systematically
murdered, maimed, tortured, imprisoned, raped, terrorized and
repressed the Iraqi people.
For more than two decades, this "Republic of Fear"
- a term developed by noted Iraqi scholar Kanan Makiya -
has targeted and preyed upon so-called "enemies of the state"
[upon decent and responsible people]
- in order to maintain power, to get rich, and to acquire land.
These "enemies" are most often innocent Iraqi citizens, and include
mothers, wives, school children, teachers, Muslims, Kurds, and
intellectuals.
His regime also routinely arrests, detains, tortures and kills THE
RELATIVES of these so-called "enemies."
Saddam Hussein has also [targeted, gone after and] found "enemies" in
neighboring Gulf States, such as Kuwait, Iran and Saudi Arabia.
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"The political-legal order in Iraq, is not compatible with
respect for human rights and, rather, [it is based on]
violations [taking place] throughout the country, and
affecting virtually the whole population." -
Max van der Stoel, UN Special Rapporteur of the Commission
on Human Rights in Iraq, 1999
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How Saddam initiated the suppression, by declaring people "traitors."
The practice began immediately upon Saddam Hussein's becoming
President, in July 1979,
when he ordered his security forces to publicly and forcibly
remove, imprison and eventually kill several long-standing,
distinguished members of the Iraqi National Assembly.
He claimed, that there were "traitors," in the National Assembly.
Saddam Hussein calmly smoked a cigar in the Parliament as he
videotaped sixty-six members of the Ba'th senior leadership
being taken away.
He later called upon the other senior members of the Ba'th party
leadership, to participate in public "democratic executions" of
their fallen comrades.
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Since then, the same tactics have been used to silence Iraqis of all
walks of life. However you earn the title of "traitor," you will be
silenced - one way or another.
"Iraq, under Saddam's regime, has become a land of hopelessness,
sadness, and fear. A country where people are ethnically
cleansed; prisoners are tortured in more than 300 prisons in
Iraq. Rape is systematic ...
congenital malformation, birth defects, infertility,
cancer, and various disorders are the results of Saddam's
gassing of his own people ...
the killing and torturing of husbands in front of their
wives and children
... Iraq under Saddam has become a hell and a museum of crimes."
- Safia Al Souhail, Iraqi Citizen, Advocacy Director,
International Alliance for Justice
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Iraq is a nation with a rich cultural heritage. Its people have a
history of intellectual and scientific achievement.
But showing no respect for life, human dignity and fundamental
freedoms, Saddam Hussein's totalitarian regime has turned back
the clock on centuries of progress.
His regime silences Iraqis who demand freedom and a normal life for
themselves and their families.
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Silence by Murder
For more than twenty years, Saddam Hussein has executed "opponents"
without respect for rule of law.
Saddam Hussein silences these "dissidents" because he [Saddam, very
correctly] believes, that their political beliefs, faith, ethnic
background, or their family members or acquaintances, are a threat
to his power.
[They are indeed, of course, a threat to any Criminal Mind:
Naturally you are - any normal person IS a threat to the
authority and power that has been taken away by and is
exerted by a Criminal Mind.]
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Some are first taken and held as political prisoners, and then, later,
are executed.
In February 1998, four hundred prisoners at Abu Gharaib prison,
were executed summarily.
Two months later, hundred detainees from Radwaniyah Prison, were
buried alive in a pit in Ramadi province.
These killings were supposed to "clean out" the prisons. More
than three thousand people have been killed in a similar manner
since 1997. [It "solves over-population," according to one
"justification" by the Criminal Mind.]
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Methods of murder by the Saddam regime
Summary executions in Iraq take many cruel forms.
A quick yet "effective" method is, to line up the entire male
population of a village, and shoot them systematically, one at
a time, in order to eliminate the village.
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Often however, Saddam Hussein's regime prefers methods that take more
time, and inflict more pain on the victim and on the victim's family.
His regime has poisoned political prisoners by giving them a
slow-acting poison, THALLIUM, which slowly infiltrates the
body's system, and takes several days to bring about death.
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Iraqi citizens are often decapitated in front of family members,
and at other times, they are shot in front of family members
- and the family is charged for the cost of the bullet.
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Saddam Hussein has perfected many of these methods of murder,
on Kurds in Northern Iraq, and on religious leaders from the
Shi'a Islamic community,
claiming that they are "disloyal to the Government."
Once murdered, many Iraqis are buried in unmarked graves so that
their family members cannot visit them.
"It has been the Iraqi regime's policy, to change the demography
of Iraq - by eradicating the Kurdish population from areas in
the North of the country, that are deemed [economically]
important.
The regime has done this through forced deportation, arbitrary
arrests, and systematic torture."
- Paiman Halmat, teacher, former Iraqi citizen
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As a particularly brutal example of silencing political opposition, it
is estimated, that
at least 30,000 to 60,000 members of the Shi'a Islamic community
were killed in Southern Iraq,
during their uprising against Saddam in post-Gulf-war Iraq
[the war in which American President Bush senior,
failed to decide to remove Saddam Hussein,
which then made it necessary, to wage the much
more costly second war to remove Saddam and his
Criminals
which was preceded by another ten years of untold
suffering and torture and murder,
inflicted by the serial killer, the very severe
psychopath, Saddam Hussein].
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Silence Through Torture
Under Saddam Hussein's orders, the security apparatus in Iraq
routinely and systematically tortures its citizens.
Beatings, rape, breaking of limbs, and denial of food and water, are
commonplace in Iraqi detention centers.
But Saddam Hussein's regime has also invented unique and
horrific methods of torture, including
electric shocks to a male's genitals,
pulling out fingernails,
suspending individuals from rotating ceiling fans,
dripping acid on a victim's skin,
gouging out eyes, and
burning victims with a hot iron or blowtorch.
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Gwynne Roberts, a female reporter for the London-based Independent
newspaper, describes her experience in a torture center in Northern
Iraq:
"In one prison cell, pieces of human flesh - ear lobes - were
nailed to the wall, and blood spattered the ceiling. A large
metal fan hung from the ceiling and my guide told me, prisoners
were attached to the fan and beaten with clubs as they twirled.
There were hooks in the ceiling, used to suspend victims.
A torture victim told me, that prisoners were also crucified,
nails driven through their hands into the wall. A favorite
technique was to hang men from the hooks, and attach a heavy
weight to their testicles."
- Independent, March 29, 1991
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Foreign citizens are not spared the brutality either.
Large numbers of Kuwaiti citizens were murdered, tortured and
raped during the Gulf War, by the Iraqi regime.
More than two dozen torture centers have been discovered in
Kuwait City, and
photographic evidence confirms reports of electric shocks, acid
baths, summary execution, and the use of electric drills to
penetrate a victim's body.
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Many innocent civilian citizens were also used as human shields.
'Criminal branding' [by means of permanent marks burnt on the skin]
and
'criminal amputations' [cutting off someone's limbs, as punishment]
have been routine in Iraqi HOSPITALS.
In 1994, the Iraqi government issued at least nine decrees, that
established cruel penalties, such as branding.
Amputation has been used against citizens convicted of military
desertion.
One citizen whose hand was cut off, was paraded on
national television - as a method of instilling fear
in the people.
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In 1994 and 1995 alone, large numbers of soldiers had
portions of their ears cut off, for deserting the army.
The government branded an "X" on the foreheads of these
soldiers as well, so that Iraqi citizens would not think,
that these soldiers were wounded war heroes.
Doctors who refused to perform the operations, were
threatened with reprisals, and many have been
arrested and detained.
'
The Iraqi authorities also issued a decree, in 1994,
making it illegal for doctors to provide plastic or
corrective surgery to victims of [such] branding and
amputation.
'
In 2000, a new Iraqi decree was issued, authorizing the
government to amputate the tongues of citizens who [expose Crime
or who resist Crime, and who thus] criticize Saddam Hussein or
his "government."
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Torture Methods in Iraq:
* Medical experimentation
* Beatings
* Crucifixion
* Hammering nails into the fingers and hands
* Amputating the genitals of a male, or the breasts of a female,
with an electric carving knife
* Spraying insecticides into a victim's eyes
* Branding with a hot iron
* Committing rape while the victim's spouse is forced to watch
* Pouring boiling water into a rectum
* Nailing the tongue to a wooden board
* Extracting teeth with pliers
* Using bees and scorpions to sting naked children in front of
their parents
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The Missing Are Silent
Many Iraqi citizens simply "disappear" - never to be heard from again.
Widespread "disappearances" are prevalent and occur regularly
among Kurdish minorities.
In 2001, Amnesty International claimed, that Saddam Hussein's
Government was responsible for the majority of the hundreds of
thousands of persons that have "disappeared" in the Middle East
and North Africa, in recent decades.
"If you are arrested, your life is over." - 'Ahmed,' an anonymous
current Iraqi citizen tells Cameron W. Barr of The Christian Science
Monitor (Oct. 31, 2002)
'
The UN Special Rapporteur on Iraq to the Commission on Human Rights,
has specifically
documented 16,496 cases of "disappearance," but he states, that
the number of Kurds alone, "missing" because of the 1988 'Anfal'
Campaign [against the Kurdish population], could reach in the
tens of thousands.
Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International place the number of
"disappeared persons," between 70,000 and 150,000.
According to the UN Special Rapporteur, the second largest targeted
group for "disappearance" were the Shi'a Muslims [second largest after
the Kurds].
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Chemical Weapons Silence Iraqi Citizens
Saddam Hussein became the first "leader" [head of state] in the world,
[not counting Adolf Hitler] to systematically and aggressively gas his
own people.
Between 1983 and 1988 alone, he murdered more than 30,000 Iraqi
citizens, with mustard gas and with nerve agents [poison].
Several international organizations claim, that he "killed" [murdered]
more than 60,000 Iraqi citizens with chemicals, including large
numbers of women and children.
During his two-year long 'Anfal' campaign against the
Kurdish population, Saddam Hussein used these chemical
weapons against more than 40 villages:
'
It was 6:20 PM on March 16, 1988, when a 'smell of apples'
descended on the town of Halabja. This Iraqi Kurdish town of
80,000 was instantly engulfed in a thick cloud of gas, as
chemicals soaked into the clothes, mouths, lungs, eyes and skin
of innocent civilians.
For three days, Iraqi Air Force planes dropped mustard
gas, and nerve agents known as Sarin and Tabun, and
also VX, a newly manufactured and highly lethal gas.
Using these chemicals, they murdered at least 5,000
civilians who died within hours of the initial attack,
and thousands more died - or were maimed by it -
over the next several years.
[The population of the town of] Halabja has
experienced staggering rates of aggressive cancer,
genetic mutation, neurological damage, and
psychiatric disorders since 1988.
If you walk through the streets today, you will
still see many diseased and disfigured citizens:
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'Shaho was nine at the time. Within weeks, he
began to suffer back pains, and eventually was
unable to stand or walk.
"Before the chemical attack, I was perfectly
healthy. ... I am certain, that poison gas
caused my illness. My mother lost her sight at
the time, and I've gotten gradually worse ever
since."
Shaho's days are spent at home lying on his
mattress, his body turned every thirty minutes
by his devoted sister, to avoid bed sores.'
- Gwynne Roberts, "Poisonous Weapons,"
Crimes of War, eds. Gutman and Rieff,
(Singapore, 1999)
'One citizen, Mr. Akra, had - before the attack - been
taken to a hospital in the neighboring country of Iran,
before returning to the village of Halabja to look for
his family:
"I saw over 200 bodies within just 100 meters. There was a
terrible smell from the chemicals and the corpses. I went
into the shelter. I first saw my grandmother. Her body had
swollen up. Then I saw the blackened face of my mother,
and I lost consciousness."
- Guy Dinmore, Financial Times, July 10, 2002
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Women silenced: Saddam Hussein Acknowledges Violent Crimes Against
Women
Saddam does not deny the fact, that his regime tortures and brutally
murders women.
The daily newspaper "Babel," owned by Uday, the eldest son of
Saddam Hussein, contained a public admission on February 13,
2001, of
beheading women who are "suspected of prostitution."
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The Iraqi Women's League in Damascus, Syria, describes this practice
as follows:
"Under the pretext of fighting prostitution, units of 'Feda'iyee
Saddam', the paramilitary organization [of Criminals] led by his
son Uday, have
beheaded in public more than two hundred women, all over the
country, dumping their severed heads at their families door
steps."
"Many of the victims were innocent, working women, including some
who were suspected of being 'dissidents'."
"Such barbaric acts were carried out in the total absence of any
- even under Iraq's own Penal Code - proper judicial procedures."
(March 3, 2001)
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'
In Iraq, if you are a woman, you could face....
* Beheading if you are accused of prostitution
* Rape, if you are related to someone the regime thinks is
disloyal
* Torture, if you are related to a "dissident"
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Many families have been required to display a beheaded family
member's head on their outside fence for several days.
These savage practices have been used against women of all
professions.
For example, an obstetrician was arrested for criticizing
the corruption within the health services,
but was subsequently beheaded "for prostitution."
Another woman, with a husband and three children, was beheaded
without charge or trial. According to Amnesty International, her
husband was wanted by the security authorities because of his
alleged involvement in Islamist 'armed activities against the
state' ["against"(!) "the state" (!) - meaning, activities to
actually try and protect the nation and people of Iraq].
Her husband had earlier managed to flee the country, but
men belonging to "Feda'iyye Saddam" (the paramilitary
unit) went to his house in Iraq, and found his wife,
children, and mother-in-law.
His wife was then taken to the street, and two men
held her by her arms, while a third man pulled her
head from behind - and beheaded her in front of
residents.
The "security" men took the body and the head with
them in a plastic bag, and also carried away the
children and the mother-in-law. The fate of those
"remains unknown."
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Rape videos as blackmail
Women are often raped in order to blackmail their relatives. Men who
leave Iraq and join Iraqi opposition groups, regularly receive
videotapes showing the rape of a female relative.
These tapes are intended to discourage Iraqi nationals abroad, from
engaging in opposition activities.
As written below, some officials carry personnel cards, that
identify their official business as the "activity of violating
the honor of women" [their state-paid JOB is, to rape women].
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Extinction of tribes
The Jibour tribe has been subjected to almost total extinction by
Saddam
(Statement made by Nidal Muhyi al-Shaikh Shallal, the wife
of Shaikh Shallal Muhammed al-Shallal, tribal chief of the
Grai'at Jibour, on October 4, 2002)
'My brother was arrested in 1980. Since then, we have no idea
what happened to him. The regime sent us a statement of his
death, in order to provoke us. My husband's brothers, who are
also my cousins, were executed.
(They were 'Martyr' Ra'ad Shallal Muhammed al'Shallal, and
'Martyr' Wa'd-Allah Muhammed al-Shallal.)
After that, our possessions were "confiscated" and we were
expelled from our lands. Now, one of our orchards has been
turned into a secret factory for making chemical weapons.
It is located in Grai'at (a suburb of Azamiyya in northern
Iraq).
I was interrogated many times. It was then, that my husband fled
away and went into hiding. Therefore I was expelled from my
government job. Many attempts were undertaken to have my husband
arrested because of his "dissent."
His brothers were executed. In 1991, he participated in
the Intifada (uprising against Saddam), but he was
captured and jailed for four months, at the prison run by
the Iraqi Military Intelligence.
His left rib and nose were fractured as he was being
tortured, and he was exposed to several electric shocks,
the marks of which are still visible on his body.
'
Our tribe, the Jibour tribe, has been subjected to almost total
extinction. Al-Grai'at (a branch of the Jibour tribe) is famous
for its struggle against the Iraqi regime. As many as 882
(eight hundred and eighty-two) men from among my relatives and
tribal members have been arrested. Their fate is "unknown."
The daughters of my uncle (namely Layla al-Jibouri, Fatima
al-Jibouri, Tarfa al-Jibouri and Safa al-Jibouri) have all
been executed.
(Testimony by Nidal, wife of the tribal chief of the
Grai'at Jibour, October 4, 2002)
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Government Betrays Children's Welfare
Saddam has no regard [either, of course] for the health and welfare of
the children of Iraq.
Since the Gulf War alone, Saddam Hussein has built 48 lavish palaces
for himself. Meanwhile,
'pharmaceutical supplies [received from charities etc. abroad]
intended for sick children, are being exported for re-sale
overseas.
Medicine and medical supplies that are desperately needed by
children, are frequently delayed, because regime members demand
bribes from suppliers.
The lack of health care in Iraq, has led to the re-emergence of
diseases that had been exterminated years ago, including cholera
and polio.
In addition, the regime takes minority children [children
of "unwanted groups"] as hostages,
in order to force their families to relocate [to go
and live somewhere else] - thereby to increase the
Sunni Arab majority in particular regions.
'
They also force children between the ages of ten and fifteen,
to attend three week training courses in the use of weapons,
in hand-to-hand combat, in 'rappelling' [descending from a rope]
from helicopters, and in infantry tactics.
These children endure fourteen hours of physical training and
psychological pressure, each day.
Families that do not want their children to attend these
rigorous training courses, are threatened with the loss
of their food ration cards.
'
Millions of innocent people in Iraq are suffering. Their daily
life has been significantly disrupted with respect to the
distribution and quality of food, pharmaceuticals and sanitation
supplies, as well as the lack of clean drinking water.
All of these elements have severely interfered with the
functioning of basic health and education systems, and have
undermined the right to work.'
- 1999 Report by the UN Special Rapporteur on the human
rights situation in Iraq
'
In Saddam's Iraq, if you are a child, you could face....
* Inadequate nutrition or medicine, because the Saddam limits
imports and distributes much of those to his friends and allies.
* Abduction, if you are a non-Arab living in an oil-producing
area.
* Having to report what your parents say about the regime.
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'Voting' under Saddam's regime
"The Iraqi people were voting one hundred percent FOR Saddam
Hussein...
(in 2002; in 1995, 99.96 % voted FOR Saddam Hussein)"
( ... ) Iraqi citizens do not have the right to change their
government.
Saddam Hussein has silenced the political opposition and has not
held true elections since his rise to power in 1979.
The Iraqi Constitution also provides for freedom of association.
However, Iraqi Law has now made past, present and future
associations - with parties other than the Ba'th party -
punishable by death.
'
Saddam boasts of his 1995, and his 2002 "referendum" ["the population
voting for him"]. That then serves the purpose, of showing to the
journalists, that "his presidency is lawful"
[to make it seem legitimate in the eyes of the journalists, the
foreign media and the diplomats,
and to please "Peace" Activists, and of course to convince "our
voting 'expert'," also former US president, Jimmy Carter, that
"all is fine and going according to the will of the people, in
the country of Iraq"].
In the most recent referendum [public "vote"] in Iraq,
the "confidential" ballots were marked with a number,
so that the government could identify the voter.
And there was only one name to choose from, on the ballot:
"Saddam Hussein - Yes or No."
And, when voting, citizens understood the consequences of becoming
one of Saddam Hussein's "enemies" [and of "betraying him"]:
He thus claimed a remarkable 100 percent "victory," [a hundred
percent approval rate] which was an increase, over the 99.96
percent result in 1995.
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Saddam's Ba'th Arab "Socialist" Party - One Arab Nation With An
Eternal Message
Party Membership Decree of the Revolutionary Command Council:
"Punishable by execution [by death] is:
1- Any member of the Ba'th Arab Socialist Party who purposely
conceals his previous political and party affiliations, and
commitments.
2- Any current or former member of the Party who, with proof,
is found to be linked during his membership to any other
party or political [group] or working for them and their
interests.
3- Any current or former member of the Party, who joined another
party or political [group] or worked for them and their
interests, after terminating his relations with the Party.
Having been apprised of this Revolutionary Command Council's
decree, I
[the undersigned party member] Majid Arshad Mahmud,
will be responsible before the law in the event that I violate
the provisions of this decree.
Accordingly, I signed.
Name: Majid Arshad Mahmud
Residential Address: Irbil, al-'Arab
Work Address: Employee/Irbil hospital
Date: 11 Jan 1979
[Signature]
Verification of signature by the local party chapter
[Signature]
Verification of signature by the division command of the party
[Stamp of the Division]"
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Independent Thought or Beliefs are Silenced
Through history, Iraqi scholars have contributed to the development of
political thought. Today, however, there is no political debate nor
are there even articles in Iraqi newspapers, that question the
government.
Those who have tried, are now in exile, or dead.
In September 1999, Hashem Hasan, a noted journalist and Baghdad
University Professor, was arrested, after he declined an
appointment as editor of one of Uday Hussein's government-
controlled publications.
His fate is "unknown."
Press freedom is non-existent because the "government" controls the
media.
Although the Iraqi Constitution provides for freedom of assembly,
citizens of Iraq are not permitted to assemble for any purpose other
than to express support for the "government."
They are also not permitted to leave Iraq and travel like citizens
living in free countries.
Specific government authorization, expensive exit visas, and a
requirement that the government must be paid a security deposit
- in order to travel abroad - are all examples of how Saddam
Hussein holds Iraqi citizens hostage, in
a country, that many [of course] want to leave.
Professors and journalists who ARE allowed to leave the country,
are interrogated upon their return - to ensure that they are
still "loyal" to the Iraqi government.
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In Saddam's Iraq, if you are an Iraqi who is Chaldean Christian, or of
Turkmen or other ethnic minority, or if you are a member of the Shi'a
Islamic majority, you could face...
* Forced relocation if you live in an area the regime wants to
control or to clear;
* Prohibitions on your religious study and practice;
* Prohibitions on the study of your language, such as Syriac, and
its use in religious practice;
* No protection from mob violence;
* Discrimination in school, work and government.
'
The Iraqi Constitution also provides for freedom of 'religion that
does not violate "morality and public order".' However, freedom of
religion is virtually non-existent in Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
The Iraqi Shi'a Islamic community makes up approximately
60 percent of the Iraqi population, yet the Ba'th party,
comprised of Sunni Islamic Arabs, controls power and has
outlawed the most common methods of Shi'a Islamic prayer.
In many areas, Shi'a Muslims are not allowed to participate
in their Friday prayers.
Shi'a Islamic broadcasting programs are completely banned on the
government-controlled radio and television, and Shi'a Islamic
prayer books and guides cannot be published in Iraq.
Thousands of Shi'a Islamic writings have been prohibited
throughout Iraq [in favor of Sunni Islamic writings].
(...)
Source: http://www.house.gov/hasc/issues/Hussein/Dec02State.html
House Armed Services Committee
2120 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
[Content and layout was edited by me for better readability or
for easier understanding, only.]
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Foot-footnotes:
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Books:
(A3) (Robert D. Hare)
'Without Conscience - the disturbing world of
the psychopaths among us,' in particular its Chapter 7.,
about 'white-collar Psychopaths.'
By Robert D. Hare, University of British Columbia, 1993.
(New York: Pocket Books, 1995)
(New York: Guilford Press, 1999 - ISBN 1-5730-451-0)
http://www.hare.org/home/index.html
From the back cover of the book:
'Robert Hare makes a strong case for the view that
psychopaths are born, not made. A chilling, eye-opening
report - and a call to action.'
'Of exceptional value to anyone wishing to look behind and
guard against these baffling predators [or parasite- or
virus-personalities] who live amongst us in fearful [in
large] numbers [sixty million of them on Earth].'
'
(A4) (Hervey Cleckley)
'The Mask Of Sanity - the acclaimed study of the
psychopathic personality'
By Hervey Cleckley, Medical College of Georgia, USA.
(St. Louis, MO - USA: Mosby Press Medical Library, 1982)
(New York: New American Library, ISBN 0-452-25341-1)
From the back cover of the book:
'Arrogant, shameless, immoral, impulsive, antisocial,
superficial, alert, self-assured, boastful, callous,
remorseless, charming, irresponsible:
'This is the poisonous mix of traits, that make up the
psychopathic personality. [...]
'Psychopaths also sit in corporate boardrooms [as
directors of companies or institutions] or function
as scientists or physicians [medical doctors] or in
any number of respectable capacities [holding
respected jobs or positions].
'They are all legally competent. [In the legal sense,
they are not insane, because they can talk and
think as brilliantly as a lawyer, to achieve their
purposes.]
'None of them "hears voices" or displays any
psychosis [that a psychiatrist could easily
recognize or could recognize at all, as these can not
and also do not want to define psychosis correctly].
'But they [psychopathic personalities] are all headed
for [causing others] big trouble, in a life-long
string of [causing] disasters [for others], that
could run the gamut [range, the whole spectrum]:
From [causing] financial ruin, to murder.
'Psychiatrists know neither the cause nor the cure of
this disorder [and they can not and do not want to
define 'disorder' either, and they have been working
and will continue to work very hard to hide the
cause of any 'disorder'] which evades [their]
established definitions of either sanity or insanity;
[So, I have defined all these terms, for you,
in the Human Rights Issues {the HRI's}, as none
indeed existed. So it is for the first time in
history, that correct definitions exist and
have been published.]
'indeed, psychiatrists themselves
[and any persons who try to help and to
understand Criminal Minds - any people who
try to help them]
'are at times as helplessly manipulated by the
psychopath, as are the psychopath's other victims.'
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