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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (104052)	7/4/2003 12:46:28 PM
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'Saddam Hussein: Crimes & Human Rights Abuses' A frequently mentioned document with an overview of human rights abuses in Iraq is a dossier released by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office on December 2, 2002 with the above title. fco.gov.uk An accompanying interview on the day of release: Report published by the FCO on Iraqi regime's human rights abuses fco.gov.uk The section on casualty count: >>Saddam Hussein: Costs to Fellow Muslims The Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988) resulted in an estimated 1 million Muslim casualties, dead and wounded. Iranian casualties were estimated at between 450,000 and 730,000. Iraqi casualties were estimated at between 150,000 and 340,000. During the 1988 Anfal campaign in Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraqi troops were responsible for the death or disappearance of up to 100,000 Muslim Kurds. On March 16 1988, Iraqi troops killed up to 5,000 and injured some 10,000 Muslim Kurds in a single day in a chemical weapon attack on the town of Halabja in northern Iraq. The 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait led to the death of some 1,000 Kuwaiti Muslim nationals. 605 prisoners of war remain unaccounted for since 1991, including nationals of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, India, Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Egypt, Bahrain, and Oman. Between 3 and 4 million Muslim Iraqis have abandoned their homes and sought refuge outside Iraq. Many hundreds of thousands of Iraq’s Muslims have been displaced internally. Estimates of 900,000 may be conservative. In the north, towns and villages were systematically destroyed by the regime during the war with Iran. Further south, non-Arabs in the region of Kirkuk have been relocated to other parts of Iraq and Arabs induced to occupy their homes and lands. And in the south, between 300,000 and 500,000 Muslim citizens have been forced from their traditional homes in Iraq’s marshlands. Thousands of Muslims have been arbitrarily arrested, ill-treated, tortured and executed in Iraq in recent years because of their suspected opposition political activities, or because they are relatives of people sought by the authorities. Sources: US Committee for Refugees Report 2002 Human Rights Watch Country Report International Alliance for Justice News Service 12/9/2002 Amnesty International Report – Victims of Systematic Repression British Government's own sources<<