Amnesty attacks Iraq torture dossier
02.12.2002 20:08
Guardian. 2 December 2002. Amnesty attacks Iraq torture dossier.
LONDON -- The government was today accused of manipulating information on human rights abuses in Iraq to build its case for war against Saddam Hussein.
Amnesty International said a dossier released today by the foreign secretary, Jack Straw, listing torture, rapes and other abuses
perpetrated by the Baghdad regime, is a "cold and calculated manipulation" of the work of human rights activists.
"Let us not forget that these same governments turned a blind eye to Amnesty International's reports of widespread human rights violations in Iraq before the Gulf war," the group's secretary general, Irene
Khan, said.
"They remained silent when thousands of unarmed Kurdish civilians were killed in Halabja in 1988."
Publication of the dossier is being seen as a further move by the government to make the case for war if President Saddam fails to
comply with a UN resolution ordering him to disarm.
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