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Saddam should not be executed: UN human rights expert
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Source: PTI
New York: An independent United Nations human rights expert has cast doubts on the legitimacy and credibility of the tribunal which sentenced ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to death and asked authorities not to carry out the judgement.
Leandro Despouy, Special Rapporteur on Independence of Judges and Lawyers, also expressed concern about the consequences of the judgment, saying in a statement that it will "contribute to deepening the armed violence and religious and political polarisation in Iraq."
Despouy urged the Iraqi authorities not to carry out the death sentence, saying this would represent a "serious legal setback for the country" while standing in open contradiction to the growing international tendency to abolish capital punishment.
In a separate statement, the top UN human rights official called on the Iraqi authorities to observe a moratorium on executions and demanded that Baghdad should fully respect the right of appeal of Hussein and other defendants sentenced to death.
"A credible appeals process is an essential part of fair trial guarantees," UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour said. "This is particularly important in this instance, in which the death penalty has been imposed."
"I hope the Government will observe a moratorium on executions," Arobur added.
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan did not issue a separate statement but his spokesman said Annan fully associated with what Arbour said.
http://content.msn.co.in/News/International/InternationalPTI _071106_1511.htm
Originally posted by: abhijit shukla
Nice article Mythili...but where was this Human Rights expert when Saddam killed hundreds of thousands of people. Where are they now while dozens of people are killed every day in Iraq?
That's what I'm also thinking and broke my head finally!!!
Originally posted by: abhijit shukla
Nice article Mythili...but where was this Human Rights expert when Saddam killed hundreds of thousands of people. Where are they now while dozens of people are killed every day in Iraq?
haha, i really wonder about that.
btw, hadn't the administration told us that the iraqi army in 1990 had starved and tortured those kuwaiti babies? remember all those 'photo-shoots' on TV? now that bit of madison avenue packaging was also true, wasn't it? 😛
friend, these guys have the technology and the marketing skill to make even your biggest saint look like the devil reincarnate. if they want, they can make any of the BJP and Congress leaders out as the biggest criminals and mass murderers in history. they dont even have to go find someone actually bad. it's all in the packaging 😉
Originally posted by: abhijit shukla
Nice article Mythili...but where was this Human Rights expert when Saddam killed hundreds of thousands of people. Where are they now while dozens of people are killed every day in Iraq?
Hello Guys, just couldn't stop myself from commenting. Saddam killed hundreds /thousands of people -agreed. The on going Iraq war has killed more number of people than that. Does that mean - the brain behind the war- The big Boys went all out to wage this war despite being told repeatedly by UN and other nations to hold back, needs to face the same fate too?? Haven't they been the cause of enough and more deaths-does that qualify them also as offenders?
Originally posted by: abhijit shukla
I doubt very much that the reports of Saddams atrocities were works of Hollywood CGI.
The testimonies of Kurds in Saddam trial were quite gruesome.
same kind of "testimony" we had when they paraded the "made in madison avenue" kuwaiti babies? that travesty was happening right on the floor of the senate. this trial on the other hand was in a kangaroo court where the credibility has gotta be a lot less.
there's something called "winner's justice". winner gets to write history and present "facts". for example, had the US lost WWII, wonder what the Japanese wld have to say about those atomic bombs.
anyway, good that we have the "entire" story now. we did need the administration to inform us as to his atrocities, atrocities we somehow did not know he had committed all those years he was in bed with them. yaar, i take people who can turn overnight with some skepticism. koi doodh ka dhula naheen hai, not even the kurds who are the new-found flavor of the day. in any case, it's nice to know that we can learn so much about "killing fields" from the kissinger realpolitik-type fellas, no?😛
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