07 June 2006.
(Name of Iraqi author withheld for security reasons)
The BRussells Tribunal
Okhwan Sinna wa Shi'a, hatha alwatan ma nbi'a (We are brothers,
Sunnis and Shiites; we are not selling this homeland).
This slogan was chanted by the Iraqis in Baghdad and other provinces
days after the occupation in April 2003, denouncing any sectarian
division in the Iraqi society, on every occasion. There was hope.
Until very recently, in spite of all the killings, Iraqis were
million per cent confident that there is NO sectarian sensitivity
between the Shiite and the Sunnis.
Now, death on seemingly sectarian bases is the strongest reality in
Iraq. Families are afraid to show up at the morgue or the hospitals
to collect a killed son's body because of the armed militias who
might be hiding in disguise around the corner. Heads of young men are
rolling in the streets like watermelon, they were kidnapped near the
morgue. In the first five months of 2006, directly after the
elections which was supposed to stop the killing and establish
(democracy) in Iraq once and for the coming four years, and the
Samara Shrine explosions, the Baghdad morgue was receiving 35-50
daily, according to Dr. Qais Hassan, a director in the morgue (1).
So what happened? Is this the beginning of the civil war? If yes, why
the so called sectarian killings, which actually began 3 years ago
did not succeed in creating civil war then? Why now? Who is behind
them? Who are the death squads after all? To begin with, it has
become common knowledge, beyond any argument that the Interior
Ministry and the Iraqi Army are involved in the death squad, whether
the Iraqi ministers or the American authorities, admit it or not (3).
There are tons of eye witnesses' testimonies, documents, evidences,
films...
The type of killing now connected to the death squads began around
early 2005, on the hands of the Iraqi police commandos. But some
important points worth mentioning here: that the first Iraqi interim
government was (elected) in January 2005 and was heavily Shiite
(Jafari government), that around that time the talk of the Salvador
option in Iraq was being heard (4), and that the police commandos
were formed, mainly of Shiite militias, especially Badr (the armed
branch of the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq) and
the Mahdi Army (the Sadr Movement militia).
But does all this mean that the death squads are Shiite militias
within the interior ministry forces?
The answer is: NO, not exactly. I know that any Iraqi who has seen a
death squads' operation (which is becoming a familiar day light
phenomenon) would want to shoot me in the head for this answer;
because a convoy of heavily armed men, masked, black-suited, in
expensive modern cars and pick ups, calling Sunnis the worst of
names, shooting in the air, calling for revenge, attacking
individuals, shops, kidnapping people, beating them to death or
shoving them in cars trunks, would not look like anything other than
a sectarian militia. But this is only part of the story.
Mehr..............
http://www.naba.org.uk/content/articles/HR/IraqHRM/606_fanatic_militi
a.htm#top
(Name of Iraqi author withheld for security reasons)
The BRussells Tribunal
Okhwan Sinna wa Shi'a, hatha alwatan ma nbi'a (We are brothers,
Sunnis and Shiites; we are not selling this homeland).
This slogan was chanted by the Iraqis in Baghdad and other provinces
days after the occupation in April 2003, denouncing any sectarian
division in the Iraqi society, on every occasion. There was hope.
Until very recently, in spite of all the killings, Iraqis were
million per cent confident that there is NO sectarian sensitivity
between the Shiite and the Sunnis.
Now, death on seemingly sectarian bases is the strongest reality in
Iraq. Families are afraid to show up at the morgue or the hospitals
to collect a killed son's body because of the armed militias who
might be hiding in disguise around the corner. Heads of young men are
rolling in the streets like watermelon, they were kidnapped near the
morgue. In the first five months of 2006, directly after the
elections which was supposed to stop the killing and establish
(democracy) in Iraq once and for the coming four years, and the
Samara Shrine explosions, the Baghdad morgue was receiving 35-50
daily, according to Dr. Qais Hassan, a director in the morgue (1).
So what happened? Is this the beginning of the civil war? If yes, why
the so called sectarian killings, which actually began 3 years ago
did not succeed in creating civil war then? Why now? Who is behind
them? Who are the death squads after all? To begin with, it has
become common knowledge, beyond any argument that the Interior
Ministry and the Iraqi Army are involved in the death squad, whether
the Iraqi ministers or the American authorities, admit it or not (3).
There are tons of eye witnesses' testimonies, documents, evidences,
films...
The type of killing now connected to the death squads began around
early 2005, on the hands of the Iraqi police commandos. But some
important points worth mentioning here: that the first Iraqi interim
government was (elected) in January 2005 and was heavily Shiite
(Jafari government), that around that time the talk of the Salvador
option in Iraq was being heard (4), and that the police commandos
were formed, mainly of Shiite militias, especially Badr (the armed
branch of the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq) and
the Mahdi Army (the Sadr Movement militia).
But does all this mean that the death squads are Shiite militias
within the interior ministry forces?
The answer is: NO, not exactly. I know that any Iraqi who has seen a
death squads' operation (which is becoming a familiar day light
phenomenon) would want to shoot me in the head for this answer;
because a convoy of heavily armed men, masked, black-suited, in
expensive modern cars and pick ups, calling Sunnis the worst of
names, shooting in the air, calling for revenge, attacking
individuals, shops, kidnapping people, beating them to death or
shoving them in cars trunks, would not look like anything other than
a sectarian militia. But this is only part of the story.
Mehr..............
http://www.naba.org.uk/content/articles/HR/IraqHRM/606_fanatic_militi
a.htm#top