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Titolo: IL tritacarne di Saddam

Per chi capisce l'inglese, dal Times 18 marzo
Dedicato a tutti i pacifisti
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3284-614607,00.html
See men shredded, then say you don't back war
By Ann Clwyd
 
“There was a machine designed for shredding plastic. Men were dropped
into it and we were again made to watch. Sometimes they went in head
first and died quickly. Sometimes they went in feet first and died
screaming. It was horrible. I saw 30 people die like this. Their
remains would be placed in plastic bags and we were told they would be
used as fish food . . . on one occasion, I saw Qusay [President Saddam
Hussein’s youngest son] personally supervise these murders.” 
This is one of the many witness statements that were taken by
researchers from Indict — the organisation I chair — to provide
evidence for legal cases against specific Iraqi individuals for war
crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. This account was taken
in the past two weeks. 
Another witness told us about practices of the security services
towards women: “Women were suspended by their hair as their families
watched; men were forced to watch as their wives were raped . . .
women were suspended by their legs while they were menstruating until
their periods were over, a procedure designed to cause humiliation.” 
The accounts Indict has heard over the past six years are disgusting
and horrifying. Our task is not merely passively to record what we are
told but to challenge it as well, so that the evidence we produce is
of the highest quality. All witnesses swear that their statements are
true and sign them. 
For these humanitarian reasons alone, it is essential to liberate the
people of Iraq from the regime of Saddam. The 17 UN resolutions passed
since 1991 on Iraq include Resolution 688, which calls for an end to
repression of Iraqi civilians. It has been ignored. Torture, execution
and ethnic-cleansing are everyday life in Saddam’s Iraq. 
Were it not for the no-fly zones in the south and north of Iraq —
which some people still claim are illegal — the Kurds and the Shia
would no doubt still be attacked by Iraqi helicopter gunships. 
For more than 20 years, senior Iraqi officials have committed
genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. This list includes
far more than the gassing of 5,000 in Halabja and other villages in
1988. It includes serial war crimes during the Iran-Iraq war; the
genocidal Anfal campaign against the Iraqi Kurds in 1987-88; the
invasion of Kuwait and the killing of more than 1,000 Kuwaiti
civilians; the violent suppression, which I witnessed, of the 1991
Kurdish uprising that led to 30,000 or more civilian deaths; the
draining of the Southern Marshes during the 1990s, which ethnically
cleansed thousands of Shias; and the summary executions of thousands
of political opponents. 
Many Iraqis wonder why the world applauded the military intervention
that eventually rescued the Cambodians from Pol Pot and the Ugandans
from Idi Amin when these took place without UN help. They ask why the
world has ignored the crimes against them? 
All these crimes have been recorded in detail by the UN, the US,
Kuwaiti, British, Iranian and other Governments and groups such as
Human Rights Watch, Amnesty and Indict. Yet the Security Council has
failed to set up a war crimes tribunal on Iraq because of opposition
from France, China and Russia. As a result, no Iraqi official has ever
been indicted for some of the worst crimes of the 20th century. I have
said incessantly that I would have preferred such a tribunal to war.
But the time for offering Saddam incentives and more time is over. 
I do not have a monopoly on wisdom or morality. But I know one thing.
This evil, fascist regime must come to an end. With or without the
help of the Security Council, and with or without the backing of the
Labour Party in the House of Commons tonight. 

 bastarda assieme agli ebrei...Hitler aveva visto bene...
C'è un po' di confusione...