“I call on all Iraqis, Arabs and Kurds, to forgive, reconcile and shake hands,” says convicted bastard Saddam Hussein.
Does that include those Iraqis who unaccountably misplaced their hands during his reign?
“The Iraqi government continued to punish its citizens under a series of brutal decrees first passed in June 1994. The decrees – which impose punishments constituting torture – ordered the amputation of ears and hands, branding of foreheads and the use of the death penalty for crimes such as stealing, desertion from the military, smuggling antiquities, engaging in currency exchange, organizing prostitution and car theft. The amputations and branding were sometimes carried out in non-medical facilities and without anesthesia. Human Rights Watch/Middle East learned that physicians who refused to perform these procedures, or attempted to repair or reconstruct damage done by such punishments, were themselves punished with amputation and even execution.”
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