First Periodical Report of Monitoring Net of Human Rights in Iraq

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First Periodical Report of Monitoring Net of Human Rights in Iraq

MHRI - BRussells Tribunal

November 11, 2005

First Periodical Report of Monitoring Net of Human Rights in Iraq
MHRI - 2005 Baghdad

The Monitoring Network for Human Rights (MHRI), which consists of more than 20 Iraqi organizations for Human Rights, made this report about the crimes and continuous violations of human rights in Iraq.


SYNOPSIS

Letter to Kofi Annan (23 Aug 2005)

Full Report (PDF)

Survey of Violations:

1. Crimes of War and Crimes Against Humanity

2. Assassinations

3. Violation of Children's Rights

4. The Health Situation

5. Collective Punishment

6. Women's Rights

7. Prisoners of War and Prisoners

8. Torture and Violations of Human Rights in Detention Camps and in Prisons

9. Minorities

10. Refugees

11. Racism

12. Religious and Civil Freedoms

13. The Situation of the Defenders of Human Rights

14. Sovereignty of Law

15. Sovereignty violations

Recommendations

Survey of violations: 

1. Crimes of War and Crimes Against Humanity 

- First crime:

Some of the ugliest crimes committed by the occupation forces and by Iraqi military units are the ones committed in the city of Fallujah in the battles of November 2004, and which we summarize in the following: 

1. The plundering of health care centers and their destruction by bombing as has taken place in the "Taleb Al-Janabi" hospital and in the Central Clinic. Further the Central Hospital was occupied; the staff and everyone in the hospital at that time were arrested. Ambulances in the city have been bombed and the rescue teams were hindered from entering the city, among them the convoy of the Ministry of Health, despite of the fact that more than 50,000 civilians still remained in the city. 

2. Internationally prohibited weapons were used in the bombing of the city, such as phosphoric weapons, Napalm, bombs containing unknown gases, causing the blood to explode out of bodies. 24 carbonized bodies have been found in the area of the military neighbourhood. Surviving civilian eyewitnesses stated that the soldiers of the occupation forces entered the area wearing gas masks. Furthermore, cases of deformed newly born increased as a consequence of the use of such weapons. In a press conference, which took place during the battle, Mr. Khaled Al-Sheikhali, official of the Ministry of Health, confirmed the use of such weapons. 

3. More than 280 missing persons are reported from among the inhabitants of the city of Fallujah. Their fate is still unknown. These persons are officially registered by names and by photo at the local authorities in the city. It is further estimated that the total number of missing persons exceeds 500. 

4. Rescue teams, who were allowed to free the city from corpses, to prevent diseases to spread among the soldiers, affirmed that there was a great number of civilian corpses lying in areas, indicating that they were neither armed nor resisting when they were attacked. Bodies were found in beds, kitchens or on chairs, bodies of children near those of their fathers. Further they found bodies of women, their dresses torn, their features disfigured. Many of the dead showed head wounds, which indicate that they were murdered from short distance and in the manner of executions. 

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