Really?
September 22, 1980 Iraq attacks Iran.
February 23--March 19, 1988 First Anfal--The Siege of Sergalou
and Bergalou, the beginning of a genocidal offensive that eventually killed or "disappeared" 100,000 ~ 180,000 Iraqi Kurds, depending upon who you believe.
August, 1990, Iraq invades Kuwait.
Saddam presides over the all-powerful Revolutionary Command Council, which enacts laws and decrees and overrides all other state institutions.
Several RCC decrees give the security agencies full powers to suppress dissent with impunity.
An RCC decree of 21 December 1992 guarantees immunity for Ba'ath party members who cause damage to property, bodily harm and even death when pursuing enemies of the regime.
Saddam has, through the RCC, issued a series of decrees establishing severe penalties (amputation, branding, cutting off of ears, or other forms of mutilation) for criminal offences.
In mid-2000, the RCC approved amputation of the tongue as a new penalty for slander or abusive remarks about the President or his family
These punishments are practised mainly on political dissenters. Iraqi TV has broadcast pictures of these punishments as a warning to others. (Gotta wonder how "protesters" like .... you..... would fair if you tried to speak against the government in Iraq, eh?)
The dossier says that BBC correspondent John Sweeney said he had met six witnesses with direct experience of child torture, including the crushing of a two-year-old girl's feet.
Prison conditions:
Conditions for political prisoners in Iraq are inhumane and degrading.
At the "Mahjar" prison "prisoners are beaten twice a day and the women regularly raped by their guards.
Under Saddam Huseein's regime women lack even the basic right to life. A 1990 decree allows male relatives to kill a female relative in the name of honour without punishment.
Women have been tortured, ill-treated and in some cases summarily executed too, according to Amnesty International.
Arbitrary and summary killings:
Executions are carried out without due process of law. relatives are often prevented from burying the victims in accordance with Islamic practice and have even been charged for the bullets used.
Persecution of the Kurds:
Under Saddam's rule Iraq's Kurdish communities have experienced terrible suffering.
Documents captured by the Kurds during the Gulf War and handed over to the non-governmental oprganisation Human Rights Watch provided much information about Saddam's persecution of the Kurds. They detail the arrest and execution in 1983 of 8,000 Kurdish males aged 13 and upwards.
Methods of torture:
Eye gouging
Piercing of hands with electric drill
Suspended from ceiling by their wrists
Electric shock
Sexual abuse
Mock executions
Acid baths
It is no wonder that, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in 2001, Iraqis have become the second largest group of refugees in the world.
Iraqis also top the table of foreign nationals seeking asylum in the UK.
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No way to top that? (source is BBC, btw)
More than anything, I feel pity for you.
Apparently, you are unable to distinguish between people that DO this sort of thing from people that wish to STOP THEM from doing this sort of thing.
What a topsy-turvy world you must inhabit.
