Saddam Hussein's Execution: Rejecting the death penalty
(Arabic)
The Khiam Rehabilitation Center for victims of Torture issued a statement on the execution of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in which it stressed the lack of impunity calling to punish perpetrators of torture through fair trials, rejecting the death penalty in principle, even if it was with a former dictator.
The center recorded the following remarks about the execution of former President Saddam Hussein:
First: The trial was only for the Dujeil case ignoring the case of Al-Anfal and the massacres carried out by Saddam Hussein's regime against the Iraqi people and his force of democracy throughout the 35 years of his bloody reign aiming to cover execution with sectarian beliefs.
Second: Ignoring the unjust wars waged by Saddam Hussein's regime on Iran and Kuwait.
Third: Executing him on the morning of Eid Al-Adha holiday and the barbaric way televised to stoke sectarian sedition in Iraq and converting him from a dictator to a victim, all this was not a mistake but a deliberate policy by the American occupation.
We reject the death penalty, but we are with the fair trial of the former President Saddam Hussein for all the crimes he committed and wars waged. On the other hand, we see that executing him on the issue of Dujeil is only a cover for his many previous and part of the American plan to divide Iraq and fragment it. Having the trial under the American occupation and through a following government, makes it simply mock trial which was unfair because the American occupation compounded the suffering of the Iraqi people and its tragedies.
Anyone who thinks that the execution of President Saddam Hussein will bring to an end the file of massacres and atrocious violations committed is wrong, also executing him won't be a certificate of good conduct of the occupation forces for the American Army and the American President Bush. There must come a time, even if late, that a fair trial will be done to give justice for the victims of torture throughout the era of Saddam Hussein, and at the same time also it will be a trial of the political and military leadership of the American and British wars which destroyed Iraq and fragmented its social and national unity. Sadam Hussein and the American occupation are two sides of one coin.
To all the human rights organizations and those against torture, do not loose the compass, raise voices high against the death penalty and calling for fair trials and handing down the most severe punishment against the perpetrators of torture and rejecting wars and colonial domination to control the wealth of the nations.
11/01/2007
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