Prisoners As "Guinea pigs" For experiments on Intemationally Prohibited Weapons
2 July 1998
Prisoners As "Guinea pigs" For experiments on Intemationally Prohibited Weapons, Hundreds of Detainees who "Disappeared" Since Early 1980s Held in Underground Cells in "Abu Ghraib Prison".
Party sources inside lraq have revealed that hundreds of Fayli Kurds and other l raqi citizens, who had been detained in the early 1980s for being of iranian origin and since then "disappeared", have been found to be alive and held in dungeons inside the huge complex of the notorious "Abu Chraib Prison". lt is also revealed that about 1000 of those detainees had been
used as Guinea pigs in experirnents to develop internationally- prohibited weapons.
The detainees, who have been held without trial for periods between 17- 18 years, are living in extrernely harsh ccnditions, threatened with death any moment as a result of the inhurnane treatment they receive at the hands of prison authorities, in addhion to rnalnutrition and rarnpant disease. The detainees are the males of thousands of Fayli Kurdish families and others
who had been forcibly deported to Iran, from their hornes in various towns, by the dictatorial regime when it started its war against Iran in 1980. That was the sacond large-scale carnpaign of expulsion and deportation suffered by Fayli Kurds since the early 1970s for purely racist-sectarian reasons
While wornen, children and the elderty of the above mentioned families were forced to leave their homes and cross borders into Iranian territories under extremely harsh condifions, resulting in " death of hundreds, fathers and young sons were detained without any specific charges and transferred to unknown destinations, where their fate had rernained unknown till now.
Our Party sources have revealed that by late 1983 at least 160 of these detainees wara executed for unknown reasons, while tens others died as a result of the harsh conditions of detention and brutal treatment by the authorities.
About 1000 more of those victims were separated frorn other detainees and transferrad. in an operation carried out in utrnost secrecy, to unknown destinations where it is believed thay were used as Guinea pigs in experirnents by the regime to develop its internationally-prohibfted waapons. The underground compound (inside "Abu Garib" complex), where hundreds of these"disappeared' victirns are currently held, lies close to the main fence of the complex. This place, acrording to the report, is surrounded with an electrified fence.
Our sources have provided a long list of these detainees, who wara mainly residents of the towns of Khanaqin, Badra, Mandeli, Jassan and Zurbatyah. While publishing here the namas of same of these detainees, we shall make the fult list (containing several hundred names) available to international human rigfits org:anisationg;, ospecially the UN Special Rapporteur on human
rights in lraq Mr. Max Ven der Stoel.
We call for urgent action by the UN Secretary General Mr. Kufi Annan, the UN Human Rights Commissioner Mrs. Mary Robinson, and human rights organisation, to save the lives of these detainees and compel Iraqi authorities to release them immediately.
Urgent rneasures must also be taken to reveal the fate of thousands other lraqi citizens who "disappeared" without trace two dacades ago. UN human rights monitors and an international fact-finding mission must be immediataly sent to lraq to stop the horrors taking place in numerous prisons; and detention centres. Such a step acquires additional urgency in view of reliable reports which reveal thet mass.,executions were still continuing in June 1998.
List of Names of some detainees:
1. Yassin Karim Khaldoun
2. Hussein Jaafar Abdul Samad
3. Yassin Murtadha Hayder
4. Saad Kadhem Habib
5. Faysal Baha el-Deen Aziz
6. Adnan Murad Bahjat
7. Hussein Hilal Sadeq
8. Reyadh Ali Kadhem
9. Saad el-Deen Hassan Fattah
10. Mahmoud Mustapha Jabbar
11. Abdul Wahab Ali Hussein
12. Aziz Othman sadeq
13. atta -allah Hassan Fayez
14. Nuri Mohammed Yousif
15. Faydh-ulla Karim Hadi
16. Hamza Fattah Jawad
17. Badr El-Deen Ali Hussein
18. Sirwan Khorsheed Mohammed
19. Ayad Ali Rasheed
20. Ali Hussein Abbass
21. Makki khaled Ali
22. Salam Hameed Saad El-Deen
23. Ismael Aref Bahzad
24. Mahdi Jabbar Murtadha
25. Talal Mahdi Hussan
26. Musa Rustam Khlil
27. Salah Nur el-Deen Fadhel
28. Hameed Hayder Malik
29. Jawad Baqer Ali
30. Abdullah Hassan Khalil
31. Hayder Amin Abdffl Redha
32. Kadhem Hashem Hadi
33. Faysal Mustapha Hassan
34. Jamal Omar Sadeq
35. Kadhem Jawad Amjed
36. Hamza kadhem Karim
37. Faysal Hssaim Hameed
38. Murtagha Sayyed Hussein Mohammed
39. Sabah Sami Hassan
40. Khalil Mobammed Abbass
41. Ghaleb Ubayd Ahmed
42. Farhad Ali Nader
43. Omar Saleh Hashem
44. Jawad Tareq Saleh
45. Hussein Kadhem Jabbar
46. Abdul jabbar Adel Sadeq
47. Abdullah Asaad Sulaiman
48. Baqer Ali Younis
49. Abdul Salam Bassem Jawad
50. Barham Aref Jamil
51. Hilal Hassan Mahdi
52. Fadel Kadhem Mahdi
53. Jassem Baqer Walid
54. Murad Hassan Saeed
55. Husam el-Deen Mustapba
56. Yousef Mohammmed Ahmed
57. Najm Yassin Hassn
58. Mahmoud Ahmed Yessin
59. Taren Majeed Nameq
60. Mohammed Hashem Bager