To: Thomas M. who wrote (24655 ) 6/5/2003 2:32:09 PM From: Hawkmoon Read Replies (4) | Respond to For the same reason Americans are still obsessed with MIAs from our past wars, perhaps. Even doctors became torturers; they cut off army deserters' ears. Servants of the system fell victim to it, too: police officers and prison guards arrested, tortured, then sent back to work..... ....Many of the missing men sought by family members were arrested after 1991. In 1994, a flood of army desertions caused Saddam to issue a decree ordering deserters' ears cut off, and that order appears to have been carried out with particular ferocity in Basra.... ...Until last week, they never knew what had happened to Aziz. On Monday, Abdul Ali went to the Jumhuriyah Mosque in Basra on a tip from others searching for missing relatives. It was about 1 p.m. He found there a handwritten list with 147 names on it. Number 20 was Aziz's....post-gazette.com Rafed Husseini, a doctor leading the group of local men doing the digging, said a total of 3,000 bodies had either been retrieved or located in the past nine days. About half remain unidentified while the rest have been identified mainly through documents found on the bodies, Husseini said. local farmers who had witnessed some of the killings by Saddam's forces had alerted them of the mass graves. "They saw the crimes taking place but did not dare talk about them at the time," Husseini said. abclocal.go.com U.N. HIGH COMMISSIONER for Human Rights Sergio Vieira de Mello said action was especially urgent because families were already picking through piles of bones, believed to be of victims of ousted president Saddam Hussein’s rule.For some families, the discovery of graves across Iraq has brought a bitter conclusion to years of worry about the fate of relatives who went missing under Saddam, toppled by U.S.-led forces last month. stacks.msnbc.com Peter Bouckaert, a researcher with Human Rights Watch, criticized the U.S.-led administration in Iraq for not sending any forensic experts to Hillah and for allowing local people to excavate the graves. He said at least 200,000 people had disappeared in Iraq during the past decade, and that human rights groups knew the locations of many other mass grave sites throughout the country. kyw.com Your statements that anti-war people supported Saddam's butchery were ridiculous enough in their logic. Obviously you don't believe Saddam was a butcher. Because you DENY these massacres took place.
