Sites Holmquist trys, and often fails, to go no more than a couple of days without visiting (some of which Holmquist regularly swipes links from without attribution)
"Britain released a dossier today on what it called the systematic rape, torture, gassing and executions of Iraqis by Saddam Hussein," writes Warren Hoge of The New York Times. Click here to read the dossier in the PDF format.
Amnesty International has responded to the dossier with a press release that says the group has not had time to go through the dossier but that:
The human rights situation in Iraq or elsewhere should not be used selectively. The US and other Western governments turned a blind eye to Amnesty International reports of widespread human rights violations in Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war, and ignored Amnesty International's campaign on behalf of the thousands of unarmed Kurdish civilians killed in the 1988 attacks on Halabja.
Iraq could get away with a lot more then because it an ally of the United States, much like the Israeli government was not punished in February of 2000 after it admitted to engaging in torture.
"More than 150 governments are engaging in systematic torture and/or ill-treatment. These acts include holding prisoners of conscience, arbitrary and extra-judicial killings, rape, massacres, disappearances, and interrogations," says the Washington D.C. based Torture Abolition and Survivors Coalition. The group lists the U.S. as one of the countries that practices torture. posted by micah holmquist at 12/02/2002 02:36:00 PM
