Abuse worse than under Saddam, says Iraqi leader
Human rights abuses in Iraq are now as bad as
they were under Saddam Hussein and are even in danger of eclipsing his record,
according to the country's first Prime Minister after the fall of Saddam's
regime.
Human rights abuses in Iraq are now as bad as they were under Saddam Hussein and are even in danger of eclipsing his record, according to the country's first Prime Minister after the fall of Saddam's regime.
'People are doing the same as [in] Saddam's time and worse,' Ayad Allawi told The Observer. 'It is an appropriate comparison. People are remembering the days of Saddam. These were the precise reasons that we fought Saddam and now we are seeing the same things.'
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In a damning and wide-ranging indictment of Iraq's escalating human rights catastrophe, Allawi accused fellow Shias in the government of being responsible for death squads and secret torture centres. The brutality of elements in the new security forces rivals that of Saddam's secret police, he said.
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'We are hearing about secret police, secret bunkers where people are being interrogated,' he added. 'A lot of Iraqis are being tortured or killed in the course of interrogations. We are even witnessing Sharia courts based on Islamic law that are trying people and executing them.'
There is a chain of rationales acceptable in the US for the invasion of Iraq. Will they also answer for the process which seems obviously destined to end with another Islamist state in the Middle East?
Posted: Sun - November 27, 2005 at 06:18 AM