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RE: [casi] Take Bush, Blair, and Rumsfeld alive!



Dear list members,
                  I wholeheartedly agree that even Saddam Hussein should be captured alive, given 
the choice to do so. It is a pity that none of his victims were spared by being given the choice to 
live. Even now, some people forget all about these victims and detract by worrying about the human 
rights of the perpetrator, under the banner of "Anti-Occupation", "Anti-War",etc....Whatever the 
label, it is not pro-Iraqi people. Witness the mass graves during the occupation by Saddam Hussein.

Regards,
        Muhamad

-----Original Message-----
From: Ghazwan Al-Mukhtar [mailto:ghazwan_almukhtar@hotmail.com]
Sent: 21 August 2003 14:27
To: casi
Subject: Re: [casi] Take Bush, Blair, and Rumsfeld alive!

Stupid me I thought the war was to uphold the international law,

. According to media
> reports, senior U.S. officials, including Secretary Rumsfeld
> and Vice-President Dick Cheney, have been discussing whether
> it might be preferable to kill Saddam Hussein rather than
> capture him alive. Ambassador L. Paul Bremer, head of the
> Coalition Provisional Authority, has also told journalists
> that U.S. forces do not want to take Saddam Hussein alive.

> "Putting Saddam Hussein on trial will be complicated, but it
> has to be done," said Kenneth Roth, executive director of
> Human Rights Watch. "You don't build respect for the rule of
> law by choosing to kill someone, no matter how heinous their
> crimes, because it's the easier thing to do."

> Human Rights Watch said that any decision to kill Saddam
> Hussein as an alternative to capturing him alive may well
> violate international humanitarian law.


----- Original Message -----
From: "emir chen" <hc228@cam.ac.uk>
To: "CASI" <casi-discuss@lists.casi.org.uk>
Cc: "若雪" <emirhui@yahoogroups.com.tw>
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 10:42 AM
Subject: [casi] Take Bush, Blair, and Rumsfeld alive!


> Take Saddam Hussein Alive? Yes! I agree. But, as a pacifist,
> I'd like to take Bush, Blair, and Rumsfeld alive, too.
>
> Emir
>
> ====================================
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Human Rights Watch"
> <hrw-news@topica.email-publisher.com>
> To: <hc228@cam.ac.uk>
> 2003. 8. 12. PM 10:19
> Subject: U.S. Should Take Saddam Hussein Alive
>
>
> U.S. Should Take Saddam Hussein Alive
>
> (New York, August 12, 2003) - The U.S. government should
> take Saddam Hussein into custody if at all possible and make
> him stand trial, rather than killing him, Human Rights Watch
> said today.
>
> In a letter sent August 8, Human Rights Watch urged U.S.
> Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to state publicly that
> the United States wants the former Iraqi president to face
> charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity before an
> independent and impartial tribunal. According to media
> reports, senior U.S. officials, including Secretary Rumsfeld
> and Vice-President Dick Cheney, have been discussing whether
> it might be preferable to kill Saddam Hussein rather than
> capture him alive. Ambassador L. Paul Bremer, head of the
> Coalition Provisional Authority, has also told journalists
> that U.S. forces do not want to take Saddam Hussein alive.
>
> "Putting Saddam Hussein on trial will be complicated, but it
> has to be done," said Kenneth Roth, executive director of
> Human Rights Watch. "You don't build respect for the rule of
> law by choosing to kill someone, no matter how heinous their
> crimes, because it's the easier thing to do."
>
> Human Rights Watch said that any decision to kill Saddam
> Hussein as an alternative to capturing him alive may well
> violate international humanitarian law.
>
> "Even in an armed confrontation, the United States would
> have to respect any offer of surrender that Saddam Hussein
> might make," Roth said.
>
> If it's not a combat situation, then policing rules apply,
> and U.S. forces can only use lethal force when necessary to
> avert an imminent threat to the life of themselves or
> others.
>
> The letter to Rumsfeld can be found at:
> http://hrw.org/press/2003/08/us080803.htm
>
>
>
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