Continuation Of Human Rights Violations In Iraq

EDM number 1577 in 1992-93, proposed by DN Campbell-Savours on 11/03/1993.

That this House notes with deep concern reports made to the United Nations Human Rights Commission that Saddam Hussein's forces have executed hundreds of people from Iraq's Southern Marshes in recent months; notes that detainees were reportedly transported in groups of up to 200 to the North, where farmers, in nearby Kurdish controlled areas, saw busloads of southern Iraqis arrive and heard gunshots on subsequent evenings; notes widespread reports that the regime is systematically draining and poisoning the Southern Marshes on which the population depends; further notes that Special United Nations Rapporteur on Human Rights, former Dutch Foreign Minister Max van der Stoel, has called the reports 'deeply disturbing' and that, in his recent report to the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva, has confirmed that Iraq's 'totalitarian' regime continues to perpetrate'... human rights violations of the gravest nature on a massive scale'; and endorses the renewed appeal, supported by the United Nations General Assembly, that the Human Rights Commission should be allowed by the Iraqi regime to post human rights monitors throughout Iraq and also that the regime's illegal economic blockade of Iraqi Kurdistan should be ended immediately.

This motion has been signed by a total of 41 MPs.