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DaSangarTalib
03-14-2006, 04:11 PM
In February last year, Knight Ridder was the first to uncover the existence of death squads in Iraq and in June documented revealed cases where victims are kidnapped by men dressed in Interior Ministry commando uniforms and later found handcuffed and killed execution-style.



However, the puppet Iraqi government repeatedly denied the existence of such death squads. On the other hand, members of Iraq’s Sunni community have long been complaining about the existence of Shia death squads that come in official uniforms and official-looking vehicles to snatch victims away.



Sunnis had accused the Badr Organization, a Shia militia, of being behind the killings, inside or outside of government ministries.



On Sunday, a senior Iraqi official confirmed that "the death squads that we have captured are in the defense and interior ministries.”



"There are people who have infiltrated the army and the interior," Minister of Interior Bayan Jabr said, adding that the Interior Ministry released 18 suspects of 22 people it had arrested recently, keeping the four remaining as they’re still needed for further questioning.



"Now we have sent them (the four) to the court because it hasn't been proven that all four were involved," Jabr said. "Although I did not have clear signs" of their guilt "I sent them to the Justice Ministry so that the law could be carried out."



Earlier this John Pace, who resigned his post as director of the human rights office at the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq, stated that "Human rights abuses in Iraq are as bad now as they were under Saddam Hussein, as lawlessness and sectarian violence sweep the country,”



"Under Saddam, if you agreed to forgo your basic right to freedom of expression and thought, you were physically more or less OK," Pace said in an interview with The Associated Press. "But now, no. Here, you have a primitive, chaotic situation where anybody can do anything they want to anyone."



While the scale of brutality under Saddam was "daunting," Pace said, today nobody is safe from abuse.



"It is certainly as bad," he said. "It extends over a much wider section of the population than it did under Saddam."



The situation in Iraq speaks for itself; the average Iraqi life was much, much better under the former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, whom the U.S. occupation came to oust to install a “democratic” government in Iraq.



During Saddam's rule, every Iraqi lived a fairly ordinary life. The only real bar was politics. What threatens a citizen’s security is becoming politically active. Otherwise, Every Iraqi was guaranteed a peaceful and more prosperous existence than what the devastated nation faces now under the occupation.



But since the U.S. invaders set foot in the country, there’ve become no rules. Kidnappings, torture, abuse and death have become widespread and utterly random. An innocent civilian might die in a car bombing, get swept up and kept in a jail like Abu Ghraib by the U.S. soldiers without knowing his charge, get kidnapped and held for ransom, or get rounded up and shot dead.



Source: AlJazeera
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Ghazi
03-14-2006, 05:27 PM
Salaam

This is just sick, someone should something about this.
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