Repression in Iraq | IMGpapers 1980

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exceeded all out until the TA OUCHI the against the despotic Iraqi Speakout THE article Iraq by the published Campaign Repression Already and tol Democratic LOns Rights in Iraq (CARDRI) is officials part of our 50.000 men, children have been 'Speakout service to the sure your really Iraqis' campaign sends us its press held releases.

assaulted 'politically are taken By the Campaign Against Repression and for Democratic Rights in Iraq (CARDRI)

THE Baathist clique of Saddam Hussein is ruling gun, the gallows, chamber. The secret police, headed by Hussein's brother, ruthlessly round up people suspected of disloyalty to the regime.

this year there have been 500 political execuwith sentences being moured cars, handed down by government judges. Over women, and genocidal forcibly deported since April 1980 on regime has the grounds that they are 'not $3,500m According to Amnesty International politica! suspects, detention without charge or triai, are tortured of the matter of Gulf'.

Women prisoners are sexually and children of is spreading suspect' hostage and tor- go-slows tured in front of their parents.

Wing and the torture Ine The Baathist regime has ment. been buying helicopters, arand machine guns for use in Kurdistan and is preparing for a full-scale war against the Kurdish people. Already the made deals with France, Spain, and Italy for worth of arms for street and mountain fighting, as well as naval equipment to enable Iraq to fulfill the role policeman the Iraq.

Opposition io the regime Working class resistance takes the form of Sunken Cory the death penalty - and the forIRISH Republican prisoners in the H Blocks of Long Kesh are due to go on hunger strike from

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The view government is prisoners are criminals' and that any sufferWing of the British that these 'ordinary they endure is 'selfinflicted'.

Is this the case, and if not what really lies hunger strike? GEOFF BELL explains, and argues hunger strike deserve our unconditional support.

north of Ireland in 1968 A survey taken in 1975 and published in (6/5/76) stressed tional nature of the convicted 'terrorists'. then emerging behind the the Society the excepIt referred to the government