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SARAJEVO (AFP) - The search for more than a million Iraqis who went missing under the regime of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) may take more than 30 years due to the lack of local expertise and poor security, Iraqi Human Rights Minister Bakhtiar Amin said.
"Saddam turned Iraq into a museum of crimes, into a land of mass graves," the minister said, referring to the ousted dictator who is now on trial for crimes against humanity.
Wake me up when they find them all.
Originally posted by Djarums
I'm sorry, did you expect Saddam to dispose of them in an organized fashion and catalog them so that when he was finally deposed we would be able to easily discover the nasty things he did?
Pretty callous statement.
Amnesty International claims 17.000 political executions by Saddam. Amnesty is more credible than CIA operatives
Originally posted by Djarums
Put it into perspective: More uproar is raised when one insurgent is killed under disgraceful circumstances than 17,000 people who did nothing but not show blind loyalty to Saddam?
Again, it seems that it's ok to kill Iraqi civilians as long as you aren't American.
Originally posted by Djarums
So i raise the same question to you again. Was it ok that Saddam was killing his own people, and should he have been left in power to continue doing that?
What I'm asking is why no one seems to think that Saddam's murders seem to matter anymore.
Originally posted by Djarums
Put it into perspective: More uproar is raised when one insurgent is killed under disgraceful circumstances than 17,000 people who did nothing but not show blind loyalty to Saddam?
Again, it seems that it's ok to kill Iraqi civilians as long as you aren't American.
Since then, Mr. Hussein's has been a tale of terror that scholars have compared to that of Stalin, whom the Iraqi leader is said to revere, even if his own brutalities have played out on a small scale. Stalin killed 20 million of his own people, historians have concluded. Even on a proportional basis, his crimes far surpass Mr. Hussein's, but figures of a million dead Iraqis, in war and through terror, may not be far from the mark, in a country of 22 million people.
Amnesty International estimates that over 100,000 Kurds were killed or disappeared during1987-1988, in an operation known as the Anfalcampaigns, to quell Kurdish insurgency andactivities.
Because so far the mass grave has proven not to be in the ten of thousands that was suppoused to be in them.
Originally posted by Seekerof
Ummm, what search engine you using? Have you turned the "bias" setting to 'off' to get it to work right?
seekerof
Text"It will take more than 30 years ... to find more than one million missing," Amin said Monday, adding that the main problem was the lack of experts and technical support to identify bodies.
Originally posted by paperclip
all those who were VERY quick to secure oil fields, but very slow to secure borders and prevent foreign fighters from entering the country;