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PUK calls for trial of toppled Iraqi regime's leaders
The leader of a main opposition group in Iraqi Kurdistan, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), in a statement on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the infamous "Anfal" liquidations, called here Sunday for the trial of the toppled Baghdad regime's leaders as "war criminals." I think we had that in mind, just on GPs... "The Iraqi regime committed the biggest crime in history some 15 years ago in its "Anfal" campaign which led to the disappearance of some 182,000 Iraqi Kurds," the statement said. "The Iraqi people are celebrating their newfound freedom amidst the fall of the Iraqi regime and which coincides with the anniversary of the brutal human crimes committed by the regime which has not been addressed yet," it added. Oh, yes. Now I remember all the lefties out in the streets protesting and demanding that Sammy and his boyz... Uh... No. That was something else. The PUK statement called on international human rights organizations and the United Nations to exert more effort to find the 182,000 people who disappeared in the "Anfal" campaign or clarify their status. It urged the next government in Iraq to revive investigations into the crime, clarify the status of victims, arrest, try and punish the offenders. Saddam's military, in the so-called "Anfal" campaign, systematically burned, bulldozed and bombarded towns and villages populated by as many as 70,000 people in Iraqi Kurdistan some 15 years ago. Might want to bring that up, next time somebody accuses us of "genocide" in Iraq. Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2003-04-14 |
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