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Iraqis killing Iraqis for America
The imminent execution of three Iraqi women reveals in bold relief the depravity of Iraqi collaborating authorities, writes Curtis Doebbler*
More than half the countries in the world have banned the death penalty. This includes every one of the 45 countries in the Council of Europe that have ratified the European Convention for the Protection of Fundamental Freedoms and Human Rights.
The Italian government has called for a full and universal moratorium on executions. This has been supported by many European governments. The United Nations, as an institution, is against the death penalty and UN human rights bodies have frequently condemned capital punishment as a violation of the right to life.
When the the death penalty after an unfair trial is illegal everywhere and under all circumstances.
In September 2006, after a New York Times article exposing several executions in Iraq, the international community queried Iraqi authorities about the alleged execution of a dozen Iraqis after an unfair trial. But since so little was known about the trials -- the United States and Iraqi authorities collaborating to ensure that little information about these trials was made public -- that concern melted into silence.
After -- and ominously not before -- the execution of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein on 30 December 2006, numerous governments and UN officials raised questions about executions taking place after proceedings that were widely considered to be unf and Iraqi authorities were undaunted by this public condemnation.
This condemnation was reiterated again by several states and UN human rights officials when Iraqi authorities collaborating with the United States government executed two more persons after the same unfair trial. And it was reiterated again, more recent following the same unfair trial before the Iraqi Special Tribunal.
One would think that any humane-thinking government would stop executing people after unfair trials in the face of such strong condemnation. Instead, the US government and its Iraqi collaborators seem to become thirstier for the blood of Iraqis as their hideous deeds are exposed.
It is they are accomplishing some perverse cleansing of the communities they hate.
the same in Libya as they struggled for a decade to put down the liberation movement of Omar Mukhtar.
In modern times, the US is unique among countries of the world in the barbarity of its executions. It applies the death penalty to children, physically and mentally disabled people, and women in some of the most inhumane ways. Not only has the American American Commission on Human Rights, and the courts of European countries. Even the International Court of Justice has condemned the US government for carrying out executions after unfair trials in which foreign defendants were not allowed the consular rights that the US had agreed to provide them.
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http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/833/op8.htm
The Italian government has called for a full and universal moratorium on executions. This has been supported by many European governments. The United Nations, as an institution, is against the death penalty and UN human rights bodies have frequently condemned capital punishment as a violation of the right to life.
When the the death penalty after an unfair trial is illegal everywhere and under all circumstances.
In September 2006, after a New York Times article exposing several executions in Iraq, the international community queried Iraqi authorities about the alleged execution of a dozen Iraqis after an unfair trial. But since so little was known about the trials -- the United States and Iraqi authorities collaborating to ensure that little information about these trials was made public -- that concern melted into silence.
After -- and ominously not before -- the execution of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein on 30 December 2006, numerous governments and UN officials raised questions about executions taking place after proceedings that were widely considered to be unf and Iraqi authorities were undaunted by this public condemnation.
This condemnation was reiterated again by several states and UN human rights officials when Iraqi authorities collaborating with the United States government executed two more persons after the same unfair trial. And it was reiterated again, more recent following the same unfair trial before the Iraqi Special Tribunal.
One would think that any humane-thinking government would stop executing people after unfair trials in the face of such strong condemnation. Instead, the US government and its Iraqi collaborators seem to become thirstier for the blood of Iraqis as their hideous deeds are exposed.
It is they are accomplishing some perverse cleansing of the communities they hate.
the same in Libya as they struggled for a decade to put down the liberation movement of Omar Mukhtar.
In modern times, the US is unique among countries of the world in the barbarity of its executions. It applies the death penalty to children, physically and mentally disabled people, and women in some of the most inhumane ways. Not only has the American American Commission on Human Rights, and the courts of European countries. Even the International Court of Justice has condemned the US government for carrying out executions after unfair trials in which foreign defendants were not allowed the consular rights that the US had agreed to provide them.
More
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/833/op8.htm
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