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UN Report: Iraqi Torturers Use Acid, Power Tools

From those lovers of peace and tolerance at Al Jazeera:

UN: Human rights worsening in Iraq

Thursday 21 September 2006, 5:47 Makka Time, 2:47 GMT

The United Nations assistance mission for Iraq (UNAMI) has said that human rights violations in Iraq are continuing on a massive scale amid growing violence in all sections of society.

"Human rights violations, particularly against the right to life and personal integrity, [have] continued to occur at an alarming daily rate in Iraq," the report, released on Wednesday, said.

Bodies found in the Baghdad morgue "often bear signs of severe torture including acid-induced injuries and burns caused by chemical substances, missing skin, broken bones - back, hands and legs, missing eyes, missing teeth and wounds caused by power drills or nails," the report said.

The monthly report said that terrorist attacks, the growth of militias, the emergence of organized crime had resulted in the large-scale and indiscriminate killing of civilians.

Every month the Iraqi police continue to find hundreds of bodies bearing signs of "severe torture and execution style killing" the report said…

The report also said that torture is common in official detention centers and that the bodies of many Iraqis executed extra-judicially executed by death squads, insurgents and militias bear also signs of severe torture…

Honour crimes increase

The document also reported an increasing number of "honour crimes" against women.

"In their fight against generalized violence, central, regional and local authorities should provide greater protection to women from crimes committed within the family, including all types of violence against women and girls on the grounds of honour," said the report.

Many Muslim societies condone the killing of women whose behaviour is seen as compromising the honour of their family or husbands.

Violence increasing

UNAMI said that Iraq’s failure to bring criminals to justice risked making Iraq even more lawless.

"A growing perception of impunity for current and past crimes committed risks further eroding the rule of law," it said.

In its latest human rights report for the months of July and August, UNAMI said that 3,009 Iraqi civilians died violently in August.

This was a slight decrease from the 3,590 civilians reported killed in July, the report said.

Apparently it is the United States’ fault that these Muslims are torturing and killing each other with acid and power tools.

Certainly the murderers are not to blame. They are merely naughty children who are "pushing the envelope" because nobody will spank them.

But isn’t it funny that the United Nations’ report should notice this:

"A growing perception of impunity for current and past crimes committed risks further eroding the rule of law," it said.

Wouldn’t that apply to international terrorism as well?

Say, maybe the US should pull out, and let the United Nations try its fabled hand at peacekeeping and nation building.

Then we would really see some human rights protection.

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