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Illegal Occupation
of Iraq: US-UK Crimes against Humanity
Open Letter to
Foreign Secretary William Hague, M.P.,
By Felicity Arbuthnot
The Foreign
Secretary,
The Rt. Hon., William Hague, M.P.,
The Rt. Hon., William Hague, M.P.,
And: To
Whom it May Concern,
Foreign and Commonwealth Office,
London SW1.
Foreign and Commonwealth Office,
London SW1.
Greetings,
In the light of the fact that it transpires
that twenty seven Foreign Office lawyers concluded unanimously that the invasion of Iraq was illegal I write to draw your attention
to just a few of the the chilling events currently taking place in Iraq under
the US-UK’s despotic, imposed, puppet Prime Minister.
Firstly, here is a list of prisons, detention
facilities, interrogation centres and numbers of those held in each, as far as can be
ascertained in the circumstances. As you will surely know people are routinely
arbitrarily detained for weeks, months, even years, often without trial, and
with one, usually under a totally inadequate or corrupt legal system.
On 3rd January 2013, Nuri al-Maliki carried out the death
sentence on Ahmed al-Samarrai and two other men from Mosul, on charges of his
resisting the U.S. and Iran occupation. Resisting an unlawful occupation is, of
course, a legal right. His body was not delivered to his family; a funeral
will take place in his honor, in gatherings, in Anbar and elsewhere in Iraq.
(Should you question the US occupation since they “pulled out” last December,
just see the Vatican City size US embassy and its thousands of mercenaries,
intelligence operators and nefarious other spooks and enforcers.)
Early this morning (4th January) al-Maliki’s
forces – wearing all black clothing – entered Taji Prison and took one
hundred prisoners from the western city of Ramadi to an unidentified place.
Death squads come to mind – again.
Al-Maliki has also ordered an on sight shoot-to-kill policy toward
protesters.
By August 31st there had been ninety six
executions in 2012, with twenty six people reportedly being executed on both
the 27th and 29th August. Few details of those executed or their identities
were released. They are simply the disappeared in the the tradition of all
despots. Iraq: “… has a huge problem with torture and unfair trials …”, Human
Rights Watch, who produced the Report, pointed out.
Thousands of women are detained and
subject to near routine torture and rape. They are often held with their children and
even with infants.
Britain as co-architect, and liar-in-chief on
the reasons for the invasion has an absolute duty, with America, to bring to
heel their out of control, tyrannical government. Both countries have large
embassies and the wherewithal to exert such pressure.
“Maliki is heading towards an incredibly
destructive dictatorship, and it looks to me as though the Obama administration
is waving him across the finishing line,” Toby Dodge, Iraq expert at the London
School of Economics said earlier this year.
“The Foreign and Commonwealth Office works to
promote the interests of the United Kingdom and to contribute to a strong world
community”, states your website. All it is contributing to at the moment is
murder, mayhem and destruction, also making a potential target of every British
passport holder where ever they travel.
Which ever party is in power, or coalition, the
UK’s actions and duplicity are beyond shame. Is it too much to hope that Iraq’s
human rights tragedy might be addressed with urgency – a new leaf, New Year’s Resolution
for 2013?
It was six years on 30th December that Saddam
Hussein, whose country’s “sovereignty and territorial integrity” was guaranteed
by the United Nations, was lynched under US-UK stewardship. The horror was the
spectre of the years to come – ongoing.
And in the event minds in the Foreign Office
should turn to Iraq’s governmental depravities and Britain’s part in creating
them, please remember a frail, ill, dignified patriot in his seventies, former
Foreign Minister Tareq Aziz and his colleagues, lost to all humanity in the
“New Iraq.” It is surely past time he and they were reunited with their
families and able to spend their remaining days, months or waning years
with them. Bearing in mind the views of the Foreign Office’s own Lawyers, in
paragraph 1.
Yours in very fragile hope,
Felicity
Arbuthnot
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