Flashback: Amnesty report on Iraq the year before the attack (2002).

BAD - Human Rights violations
1. Five people were executed for the murder of a govt official and a policeman.
2. Three army officers were reportedly executed for allegedly criticising Saddam
3. Five people were executed for reportedly belonging to an outlawed Shia group
4. Seven families were expelled to Iraqi Kurdistan from Kirkuk.
5. Three families were expelled from Makhmur town to Iraqi Kurdistan
6. Six families were expelled from the town of Tuz Khurmatu to southern Iraq.
7. The family of an exiled journalist denounced him on TV after being arrested.
8. The brothers of an opposition activist in Jordan were threatened.
9. A former human rights worker was arrested by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) on suspicion of spying and released 5 months later.
10. A newspaper editor and a writer were arested by the The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP)

GOOD - Positive action on human rights
1. The Iraqi govt ordered the release of all prisoners, including "prisoners, detainees and fugitives jailed for political reasons and all other ordinary reasons, including sentenced to death… inside or outside Iraq". However, it excluded Arabs condemned or accused of spying for Israel and the USA.
2. Hundreds of Iraqis living abroad, including opposition activists, were said to have returned to the country following the amnesty.
3. The KDP and PUK announced the start of a reunification process and agreed to move forward with the implementation of the 1998 Peace Agreement signed in the US.

http://web.amnesty.org/report2003/Irq-summary-eng

now.

That's progress, Bush-style.

I count 13 dead in that report. Is that for a year? Now if my math is correct, there are double that number PER DAY in Iraq today.

Way to go Bushies!

Just what was posted was enough for me to see what "progress" we've made. At least we now know the definition of progress.

here to help.


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