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THE COMMITTEE FOR THE RELEASE OF
HOSTAGES AND DETAINEES IN IRAQ
P.O. BOX
3713 , GLASGOW
G41 3WG
SCOTLAND UK
Chairman : DR.
KAMAL KETULY
Vice Chair : HUSSEIN MEHDI, Tel: 0044-7887871373
Secretary : IAN HUNTER, Tel/Fax: 0044 (0) 1416491093
E-mail : iraqi_hostages@hotmail.com
Website : www.9neesan.com/iraqihostages
Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide case is
presented to:
The
The Judge : Mr. Salem Chalabi
Location :
The Case : The Illegal Deportations of Thousands of Faily Kurds and other Iraqi
citizens to
The Charges
Pressed and Presented by The
Committee for the Release of Hostages and Detainees in
The Charges against Saddam Hussein, his half brother Barzan Al-Tikriti and their
ex-regime are as follows :
1.
The
forceful and inhuman deportations of about a million of Iraqi
citizens – families to
In the midst of the deportation at the Iraq-Iran border, some families were forcefully made to walk through land mine areas, resulting in many innocent men, women and children perishing.
(Please refer to the RED CROSS & RED CRESENT and the Iranian Government reports, BBC news for that period of time and the archives of The Free Prisoners Association-Baghdad. For example my family, my 3 uncles and 4 aunties and their families and many of my immediate relatives were deported).
2.
Hostage
taking of Iraqi citizens from their deported families, illegal
imprisonment, torture, and disappearance.
Until now we do not know what Saddam Hussein, Barzan Al-Tikriti (he was in charge of the hostages detained while they were kept in the Abu Ghraib Prison from 1980 to 1984) and his ex-regime had done with them or where they were kept (for example, my brother Jamal and eleven of my immediate cousins, many relatives and fellow citizens). Our hostages’ committee has in total the names and details of over 900 disappeared hostages. These lists are in this committee’s web site in Arabic and English.
3. The confiscation of properties, belongings, businesses and money deposits in
Iraqi Banks, Iraqi citizenships and passports documents from these deported families.
4.
Forcing the
spouses of members of the deported families to divorce and separate from their
spouses and to marry members of the Baath party to stay in
5.
The
deportations of tens of children and disabled people
Young children were deported without parents or guardians. A number of severely disabled people were deported without care assistants, family members or other support. These deportations took place in harsh weather conditions.
6. The use of some detained hostages in chemical and biological experiments
Many died and disappeared without trace.(Witness reports from the released ex-hostages, Please refer to this committee’s website: www.9neesan.com/iraqihostages).
SUMMARY
Deportations
- April 1980 - 1990 approximately one million Iraqi citizens
(more than half were Faily Kurds) were forcibly
deported to
- The deportations commenced six months prior to the start of the Iraq/Iran war.
- The deportees were accused of being of Iranian origin.
- Their belongings and Iraqi citizenship documents were confiscated.
Reasons for the Deportation
- Many of the deportees were wealthy and the ruling Baath Party wanted their wealth for its own supporters.
- Many of the deportees were not supporters of the Baath Party or not trusted by the Regime.
- Many of the younger deportees were well educated and the Baath Party feared their future influence.
Hostage Taking
- To silence protest members of each family of deportees were detained as hostages.
- Approximately one detainee for every 10 deportees.
- These hostages were mainly men 16-40 years of age, and also included children and the elderly.
- Many hostages were on National Service when arrested.
- The hostages were imprisoned in various prisons and transported between prisons.
- Abu Ghraib and Qalat Al-Salman were 2 of the main prisons where hostages were kept.
- At least 4 thousand hostages are still un-accounted for and this committee has the names, details and evidence of over 900 of these disappeared Iraqi hostages.
CONCLUSION
On
Which brings about the obvious question - why was this atrocious crime forgotten and dropped from his court appearance?
Saddam Hussein’s despicable act cannot be erased from the minds of the victims and must be brought to the face of justice.
This 8th charge is an equally vital crime and case against Saddam Hussein and his top aides. Respectively, this committee requests this special court to bring forward Saddam Hussein, his top aides and his half brother Barzan Al-Tikriti again to read out all our charges mentioned above against them.
The committee is able to provide this court with material evidence and present witnesses who were deported, the relatives of the hostages, and the released ex-hostages whenever your court requires.
We strongly urge
your court to take on this honorable, humanitarian duty to try Saddam Hussein
and his ex-Ba’ath regime who committed these crimes.
This will be a symbol of justice in
For ease of correspondence and communication, please contact us at our committee’s e-mail address, iraqi_hostages@hotmail.com
Wishing your court all the success with this special case.
Yours sincerely,
DR. KAMAL AZIZ KETULY
Committee for the Release Of Hostages and Detainees in
Copies to be presented to:
The Iraqi Government Officials
The President, Mr. Ghazi Al-Yawer
Vice President, Dr. Rowsch Shaways
Vice President, Dr. Ibrahim Al-Jafari
Prime Minister, Dr. Iyad Allawi
Deputy Prime Minister, Dr. Barham Salih
Minister of Human Rights, Dr. Bakhtiar Amin
Minister of Justice, Mr. Malik Duhan Al-Hasan
Chief of National Security, Dr. Muafaq Al-Rubai
Prime Minister of
British Foreign
Minister, Mr. Jack Straw
President of
Foreign Secretary, Mr. Colin Powell
Secretary General of United Nations, Mr.
Kofi Annan
Special UN Envoy to