What we desperately needed was.....

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What we desperately needed was to have all government officials stand up with the people of Mossul, not abandon them as they sought to get the Americans to apologize. It is an apology that the people of Mosul will never receive.

Before this, we wished our officials to stand up with the people imprisoned at Abu Ghraib, or with the youth of Basra after what the British did to them (referring to the video showing British soldiers beating young demonstrators).

But all we witnessed was silence … nothing but silence. Isn’t there any indignation? At least a statement like, "We’re going to investigate this matter" or "We’re going to form a commission," after which, in any case, the commission would be swept under the rug like so many others! Why are they suddenly so tongue-tied under these circumstances?

The world is full of stories of the atrocities in Iraq, be they committed by Americans, British or locals. These atrocities have filled thousands of newspapers in all of the world’s languages, but our officials refuse to utter a word. In the midst of this deafening silence, who knows what happens behind local prison bars and those imported here by the U.S. and Britain, when not a single one of our officials visits them, even from our Human Rights Ministry, which we pride ourselves in having.