Excellency Mr. Ban Ki-Moon
United Nations Secretary - General
New York January10, 2007

Excellency …..The whole world watched the end of the trial of the former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein. It was apparent that the US President did not respect the international institutions, the international standards or conventions of human rights; moreover he didn’t even abide by the minimum extent of providing Saddam a fair and justice trial. Hereby we would like to shed the light on specific points that your authority has the responsibility to take action upon, they are:

1- Speeding up the execution sentence was an attempt to get rid of the official and non-official international pressure objecting the trial that didn’t only lacked honesty and justice standards but also considered illegitimate because due to all the international standards and rules they stipulate that late Saddam should have been treated as a war detainee and he was under the American custody until the last hour before he has been executed. Then the US forces moved his corpse to his town, this pointed out that the US government was fully and the sole responsible of his “assassination”.
2- It is known that the court to trial Saddam Hussein has been formed according to a resolution taken by the American administration to carrying out the execution sentence. During his trial period, the US government also used to choose specific timings to politically serve their agenda in Iraq, and the announcement of Saddam’s execution sentence within two days prior the last American Elections held in 2006 assures that.
3- Speeding up the trial aimed at preventing Saddam of disclosing details of killing the civilians in the Kurdish city, Halabcha, as well as the massive graves of south Iraq committed in 1991. Almost everybody acknowledges the involvement of some Iraqi officials who are in the recent Iraqi government in addition to Iran, USA and the ex-regime.
4- Saddam’s assassination was regional decision on which America, its alliances and some neighboring countries approved after US-regional discussions to set a new strategy for the US-British dilemma in Iraq. And we hereby would like to assert that the Iraqi nation have nothing to do with the assassination crime.
5- The timing of executing Saddam meant to generate further sectarian crimes and killings, and to support the militias and the death squads. It was noticeable that following to Sammarra’s bombings, where several international, regional and local parties involved, the sectarian killings started and ignited the civil war in Iraq. This indicated the rejection reason of Al Jaafari and Al Maliki governments and the occupation forces to permit any independent investigation committee conduct investigation to know what happened exactly. We are concerned now that to disregard the dramatic figures that show the level of destroy, killing, kidnapping, displacing and other crimes in our country.
6- The timing of the execution in a religious occasion during which the killing is prohibited was an indication to continuing the crimes intentions and disrespect for the Muslims feelings that the both governments of the “Green Zone” and the American insist on. This, unfortunately clarifies the fact of what Al Maliki’s government claim “National Welfare” which it approved that they are seeking to destroy any initiative for ‘National Welfare” and to have an execuse for their continuous series.
Excellency ….. We, as human rights activists and defenders, object, just like you and the whole civilized world do, the execution penalty. Therefore, we will not demand you to execute the US President and the British Prime Minister and the current Iraqi government formed under the US-British occupation because they caused the killing of more than 665000 Iraqis. Those Iraqis victimes have been killed within less than years ago. We appeal you to demand the General Assembly of the United Nations to take a decision of establishing an International Criminal Court for all anti-humanitatian and genocide crimes that the Iraqi people were exposed to during the ex-regime and the following period as we deem it the only way to prevent the massacres and destroy action the Iraqi people exposed to on a daily basis. The real transition justice requires neutral honest courts, which up to date, the international community failed to achieve and was mainly responsible for the Iraqi people suffering.



Muhamad T. Al-Daraji

President of Monitoring net of human rights in Iraq (MHRI)

Muhamad Al-Deraji
Director of Monitoring of Human Rights in Iraq(MHRI)
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