Lynching Saddam - Part 9: "arbitrary detention"

I can still hear the echo of Human Rights Watch executive director’s Kenneth Roth’s words:

“One can only rejoice at the capture of Saddam Hussein. Few people are more deserving of trial and punishment. U.S. forces deserve credit for arresting the deposed dictator so that his crimes can be presented and condemned in a court of law, rather than arranging to kill him in combat.”

This past summer, as a note to a piece on the role of the so-called international community in this scandal, I wrote that Saddam Hussein is

“a head of state KIDNAPPED by a foreign power while committing the “crime against the peace”, the “war of aggression” against Iraq. He’s now held HOSTAGE by that foreign power together with the illegitimate so-called “government” of Iraq”.

The AFP reported just a few days ago:

Saddam Hussein's trial fell so far short of international standards that his detention was "arbitrary", and as such the death sentence should not be carried out, a working party of the United Nations Human Rights Council has said. "The non-observance of the relevant international standards during Mr. Hussein's trial was of such gravity as to confer Mr. Hussein's deprivation of liberty an arbitrary character," the Council's working group on arbitrary detention said Tuesday. (…)

But since the Insane Society keeps paralyzing our brains, the AFP goes on:

However the working group on arbitrary detention stressed it was not calling for Saddam Hussein to be released.

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