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Human Rights Watch says it is likely crucial evidence for the trials of Saddam Hussein and other former Iraqi officials has been lost or tainted.
Human Rights Watch alleges that the coalition's failure to prevent or minimise the looting and destruction of government buildings in April 2003 led to the widespread removal of state archives, which are now virtually impossible to trace.
Originally posted by Kriz_4
That is entirely the problem. There is no legal evidence, he would have been prosecuted by now. As of yet, they have been unable to find the mass graves where "thousands of people" are buried.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- U.S. forces have exhumed a mass grave in northwestern Iraq and uncovered the remains of hundreds of people. Many of the bodies found at the site near al-Hatra are believed to be the bodies of Kurdish women and children thought slaughtered by the Saddam Hussein regime.
The coalition subsequently failed to put in place expertise and assistance needed to ensure proper classification and exhumation procedures. In some areas, it says, coalition soldiers watched as villagers or families of people who disappeared during Saddam Hussein's rule dug up remains at mass grave sites. The unprofessional manner in which the graves were unearthed, says the group, made it impossible for many relatives to identify the remains, or to keep those remains intact and separate.
Originally posted by Kriz_4
We were told that Saddam was responsible for a "genocide" of kurds, that he was responsible for "hundreds of thousands" of deaths. No proof.
As your source says, hundreads of bodys were found and thought to be "slaughtered by the Saddam "regime"."
Again, no proof. We were led along the garden path.
There is a huge difference between hundreads and hundreads of thousands.
Again, I say, the reason Saddam has not been sentenced, is because there is no evidence of anything that he can be sentenced for.
If you ask wehther we need proof...Is that really a serious question?
Originally posted by Gools
He knows too many secrets involving his old buddies in the CIA, US Gov't etc.
If he does not "die" in custody there will simply be a "show" trial and he will be quickly executed.