[lit-ideas] Liberating Iraq
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- Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 09:38:08 EST
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Obviously the cowboys w/ the white hats have done well....
<<SYDNEY, Australia - Human rights abuses in _Iraq_
(http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news/?p=Iraq) are as bad now as they were
under S_addam Hussein_
(http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news/?p=Saddam+Hussein) , as lawlessness
and sectarian violence sweep the country, the former U.N. human rights chief
in Iraq said Thursday.
John Pace, who last month left his post as director of the human rights
office at the U.N. Assistance Mission for Iraq, said the level of
extra-judicial
executions and torture is soaring, and morgue workers are being threatened by
both government-backed militia and insurgents not to properly investigate
deaths.
"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."
Pace, who was born in Malta but now resides in Australia, said that while the
scale of atrocity under Saddam was "daunting," now 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.">>
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