hawarameen
18th February 2003, 23:50
The Chilling Fears Behind Saddam`s Alleged Amnesty for Prisoners
by: Dr.Nazad Hawramany
Nov 1, 2002
After the staged referendum in Iraq to reassert the Iraqi dictator's reign for another 7 years and the incredible 100% vote for Saddam Hussein ( which made the Iraqi referendum a laughing stock for the whole world !!), the Iraqi dictator is trying to bluff the whole world that there is no need for enforcing a regime change from outside, when he is suddenly making alleged changes in the regime himself by issuing an amnesty for all prisoners in Iraq, including political prisoners, and declaring that Iraqi prisons are empty now .
Yet though all Iraqi peoples ( Arabs, Kurds and minorities), know the true sadistic nature of the regime and the reality that almost all political prisoners never really make it to the courts and they either die under torture in the many terrible detention centers in Iraqi security and intelligence headquarters ( Amn-al-amme and mukhabarat) or will be executed with impunity in these centers, still many had hoped unrealistically that they could be wrong and that somehow they will reunite with their missed beloved or at least know their fate for sure, so they waited and are still waiting without any relieving news .
Some 182 000 Iraqi male Kurds were imprisoned in the genocide Anfal campaign of Iraqi army in south (Iraqi) Kurdistan in yeras 1987-1990 and never heard from them since, 8000 Kurdish men from Barzani tribe were kidnapped from Barzan region without any clues about their fate , 9000 Iraqi Kurds were imprisoned only because of their Iranian ancestry ( Faily Kurds) in the 1988's at the beginning of Iraq-Iran war, also disappeared without any clues to their fate or whereabouts, tens of thousands of Arab Shiites also imprisoned after the uprising of 1991 and nothing heard about them since then. None of these groups were among the prisoners released after the alleged amnesty by the Iraqi regime. Reports of Iraqi opposition is talking of tens secret detention centers which were not included in the amnesty.
The sum of all fears is that all of these people have perished due to arbitrary mass executions or buried alive or fell victims to Saddam^s biological and chemical warfare experiments just like laboratory animals and we will probably only know their fate definitively when the murderous regime of Saddam is toppled and replaced by a new democratic , pluralistic and federal government which then establishes with the help of the international community an international tribunal to try the symbols of the regime for crimes against humanity, for genocide as well as war crimes and to uncover the fate and remains of those killed on the hands of this regime.
But before that happens, the international community embodied in the united nations must exert pressure on the Iraqi regime to reveal the fate or the whereabouts of those missing Kurds and Shiite Arabs and to make them accountable to their fate as well as to the fate of 600 missing Kuwaitis, the heated debates in the security council about any new resolution about Iraq must not only be limited to weapons of mass destruction but also to the violations of human rights in Iraq and the necessity to send human right observers with unfettered access and authorities to meet any Iraqi citizen or group of people without the supervision of Iraqi security agents.
The commerce driven axis of greed of Russia-France-China must stop defending Saddam and trying to decelerate the efforts to destroy the Iraqi WMD and effect a regime change in Iraq, for closing the eyes on these heinous crimes and shedding crocodile tears on Saddam^s regime will only prolongs the misery of Kurds and Arabs in Iraq and paves the way for further development of WMD including nuclear ones by the Iraqi regime which I will be a nightmare for the whole world let alone the oppressed Iraqi peoples.
One should not only focus on the oil reserves in Iraq but rather on the unbearable agony of Iraqi people under the dark rule of Saddam Hussein and his fascist Baâth party.
Dr.Nazad Hawramany
by: Dr.Nazad Hawramany
Nov 1, 2002
After the staged referendum in Iraq to reassert the Iraqi dictator's reign for another 7 years and the incredible 100% vote for Saddam Hussein ( which made the Iraqi referendum a laughing stock for the whole world !!), the Iraqi dictator is trying to bluff the whole world that there is no need for enforcing a regime change from outside, when he is suddenly making alleged changes in the regime himself by issuing an amnesty for all prisoners in Iraq, including political prisoners, and declaring that Iraqi prisons are empty now .
Yet though all Iraqi peoples ( Arabs, Kurds and minorities), know the true sadistic nature of the regime and the reality that almost all political prisoners never really make it to the courts and they either die under torture in the many terrible detention centers in Iraqi security and intelligence headquarters ( Amn-al-amme and mukhabarat) or will be executed with impunity in these centers, still many had hoped unrealistically that they could be wrong and that somehow they will reunite with their missed beloved or at least know their fate for sure, so they waited and are still waiting without any relieving news .
Some 182 000 Iraqi male Kurds were imprisoned in the genocide Anfal campaign of Iraqi army in south (Iraqi) Kurdistan in yeras 1987-1990 and never heard from them since, 8000 Kurdish men from Barzani tribe were kidnapped from Barzan region without any clues about their fate , 9000 Iraqi Kurds were imprisoned only because of their Iranian ancestry ( Faily Kurds) in the 1988's at the beginning of Iraq-Iran war, also disappeared without any clues to their fate or whereabouts, tens of thousands of Arab Shiites also imprisoned after the uprising of 1991 and nothing heard about them since then. None of these groups were among the prisoners released after the alleged amnesty by the Iraqi regime. Reports of Iraqi opposition is talking of tens secret detention centers which were not included in the amnesty.
The sum of all fears is that all of these people have perished due to arbitrary mass executions or buried alive or fell victims to Saddam^s biological and chemical warfare experiments just like laboratory animals and we will probably only know their fate definitively when the murderous regime of Saddam is toppled and replaced by a new democratic , pluralistic and federal government which then establishes with the help of the international community an international tribunal to try the symbols of the regime for crimes against humanity, for genocide as well as war crimes and to uncover the fate and remains of those killed on the hands of this regime.
But before that happens, the international community embodied in the united nations must exert pressure on the Iraqi regime to reveal the fate or the whereabouts of those missing Kurds and Shiite Arabs and to make them accountable to their fate as well as to the fate of 600 missing Kuwaitis, the heated debates in the security council about any new resolution about Iraq must not only be limited to weapons of mass destruction but also to the violations of human rights in Iraq and the necessity to send human right observers with unfettered access and authorities to meet any Iraqi citizen or group of people without the supervision of Iraqi security agents.
The commerce driven axis of greed of Russia-France-China must stop defending Saddam and trying to decelerate the efforts to destroy the Iraqi WMD and effect a regime change in Iraq, for closing the eyes on these heinous crimes and shedding crocodile tears on Saddam^s regime will only prolongs the misery of Kurds and Arabs in Iraq and paves the way for further development of WMD including nuclear ones by the Iraqi regime which I will be a nightmare for the whole world let alone the oppressed Iraqi peoples.
One should not only focus on the oil reserves in Iraq but rather on the unbearable agony of Iraqi people under the dark rule of Saddam Hussein and his fascist Baâth party.
Dr.Nazad Hawramany