Karen
02-28-2006, 12:43 PM
* Exclusive: Former UN Human Rights Chief in Iraq Says US Violating Geneva
Conventions, Jailing Innocent Detainees *
The Washington Post is reporting 1,300 Iraqis have died in violence since
Wednesday¹s bombing of the Askariya shrine in Samara. In his first interview
since returning from Iraq, John Pace, the human rights chief for the the
United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq, reacts to the mass killings on
the ground. Pace says he believes the U.S. has violated the Geneva
Conventions, is fueling the violence through its raids on Iraqi homes and is
holding thousands of detainees that are for the most part innocent of any
crimes.
Listen/Watch/Read
https://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/28/1427244
Conventions, Jailing Innocent Detainees *
The Washington Post is reporting 1,300 Iraqis have died in violence since
Wednesday¹s bombing of the Askariya shrine in Samara. In his first interview
since returning from Iraq, John Pace, the human rights chief for the the
United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq, reacts to the mass killings on
the ground. Pace says he believes the U.S. has violated the Geneva
Conventions, is fueling the violence through its raids on Iraqi homes and is
holding thousands of detainees that are for the most part innocent of any
crimes.
Listen/Watch/Read
https://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/28/1427244