[A-List] coincidentally UK dossier against Sadaam

[Chris Burford <cburford@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The BBC reports this morning that the UK government is to release a report
giving graphic detail of civil rights atrocities by Sadaam Hussein.


> It is a move by the government to gain public support for war on Iraq if
> the regime fails to comply with the resolution, said BBC diplomatic
> correspondent James Robbins.
>
> He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the document made "harrowing"
> reading, and was "a political document intended to achieve a particular
> political effect."
>
> .......
>
> Amnesty International secretary general Irene Khan ... said: "This
> selective attention to human rights is nothing but a cold and calculated
> manipulation of the work of human rights activists.
>
> "Let us not forget that these same governments turned a blind eye to
> Amnesty International's reports of widespread human rights violations in
> Iraq before the Gulf War.
>
> "They remained silent when thousands of unarmed Kurdish civilians were
> killed in Halabja in 1988."


Chris Burford