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December 30, 2006
Saddam Hussein and European Responsibility
The former Iraqi leader, Saddam Hussein, has been hanged in northern Baghdad for crimes against humanity.
I believe Saddam was executed when American soldiers captured him in a whole near Tikrit in March 2003. We saw a mountain man in a whole, tried to save his own life. When we saw his picture in newspapers in March 2003 searching his teeth and hair by Army physicians, the dictator was died. In his eyes I could see a poor man that was looking for help without any power.
Today he was hanged in Baghdad. Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death by an Iraqi court on November 5th after a year-long trial over the killings of 148 Shias from the town of Dujail in the 1980s. But the missing part of his Trial is the Chemical Bombardment of Halabja in 1988.On March 16th 1988 at least 5,000 civilian people died as an immediate result of the chemical attack and it is estimated that a further 7,000 people were injured or suffered long term illness.
Saddam started a bloody war against Iran in 1980s, he occupied Kuwait in 1990s.He killed his oppositions including his sons in law. With an Ideological viewpoint he can explain his behavior. He can say that he hate Iranian nation and killing Iranian Soldiers and civilians with chemical weapons is his right. But I don’t know how he could explain killing his nation in Halabja with chemical weapons. How a dictator can phrase this homicide.On the other hand I don’t know why European Governments and most of the western nations ignored this crime against humanity during the crime time. May having business with Saddam during those days was an obvious reason to ignore this crime.
European Union must explain why her members sold chemical weapons to the dictator during Iran-Iraq war and supported the dictator for years.We have to add Halabja to the list of human suffering if we can accept our responsibility as human society.
Posted by Syamak Moattari at December 30, 2006 11:20 AM
