[The Insider] UN declares Iraq executions illegal under international law

UN declares Iraq executions illegal under international law

 

*** The UN has issued a public statement declaring that the execution of officials from the old Iraqi government is illegal under international law. A formal request was delivered by the UN to the new US-controlled Iraqi regime calling for the murder of political prisoners to stop. The 69 year-old former President of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, was killed in a hurried execution on New Year's Eve, hours after his spurious death-sentence was upheld by a highly questionable court, and the corporate news media has been "speculating" that other Iraqi politicians will be hanged imminently. The new Iraqi regime, which is conducting these "trials" under close supervision by the US regime, and the phoney "court" set-up inside the "Green Zone" along with its judges and officials, are staffed by well-known anti-Saddam activists and terrorists who spent decades trying to overthrow the government in order to obtain power form themselves, and with assistance from America and Britain they have succeeded. ***

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