Originally posted by GScholz
Halabaja: A battleground, Kurdish rebels joined the Iranians in battle against Iraq. Still, chemical weapons banned by international law were used by both sides so this incident may be the best "card" to use against Hussein in a war crimes trial.
Shiites around Basrah after 91-war: Armed uprising quelled by the Iraqi army. Legal action acording to international law, even the US National Guard has used lethal force against much less armed and violent crowd, to say nothing of an armed uprising.
Kurds in Iraq and Turkey are like Chechens in Russia; rebels and separatists. There has been an ongoing war between the Kurds and the Iraqi and Turkish armies for ages.
heh, suddenly Im understanding what happened when the UN was in Bosnia in general and at Srebrenica in particular...
You are a disgrace.
Lets take a look at one example from the Kurds:
Khorome, an ex-village located 80 kilometers south of the Turkish border. In August 1988 the Iraqi army came to town, raced every village and shot every male person between the ages of 10-70. The women and children were left, alive but without any belongings except for the clothes on their bodies.
Human Rights Watch estimates that Saddam's 1987-1988 campaign of terror against the Kurds killed at least 50,000 and possibly as many as 100,000 Kurdish civilians.
Typical example of something Gscholtz wants to call an ongoing war between separatists and regular army. Kinda like what took place in Bosnia then?
Lets look at 91. According to Gscholz this is legal:
According to Human Rights Watch, "senior Arab diplomats told the London-based Arabic daily newspaper al-Hayat in October [1991] that Iraqi leaders were privately acknowledging that 250,000 people were killed or dissappeared during the uprisings, with most of the casualties in the south."
The British Broadcasting Corp., which showed television footage of the grisly scene, said that at least 3,000 bodies were exhumed. It quoted unidentified human rights groups as saying that the graves could contain 10,000 to 15,000 bodies. Human Rights Watch did not confirm estimates of the number of people buried there.
The BBC said it did not know how or when the victims in the Hilla graves were killed, but said they could have been Shiite Muslims massacred by Iraqi forces after a Shiite uprising against Hussein after the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
Another grave containing more than 1,000 bodies was recently found in Muhammad Sakran village, about 25 miles north of Baghdad, Human Rights Watch said.
Halabja was not a front line town, that is a lie.
