Violation of human rights in Iraq

By Sk. A Wadud, Lake Circus, Kalabagan, Dhaka
22 May 2004, 18:00 PM
The barbarous and heinous atrocities and brutalities committed on the Iraqi prisoners by the US army have surpassed all records of Saddam Hussain's excesses . Aren't these the acts of the civilised army of a superpower which claims to be the most civilised nation in the world and champion of human rights and democracy? The atrocities committed by the US army in Iraqi prisons remind us of the tortures and brutalities committed in Nazi concentration camps during the World War II.

Saddam did not destroy the cities and properties of Iraq. But Mr Bush has destroyed the cities of Iraq. Bush has killed the civilians, women and children in Iraq ruthlessly, apart from the ten lakh children who died in eight years due to the sanctions imposed on Iraq at the initiative of America. Now Bush wants to impose democracy on Iraqi people by force, whether they want it or not. The Muslim countries of the Arab world are not accustomed to the western type of democracy. They are familiar with Islamic democracy which is such a thing that cannot be imposed from outside by force. It has to come from within.

Now it is clear, when the pretext of WMD has failed, the pretext of democratising Iraq is the issue to justify the US occupation of Iraq. Bush wants to grab the resources of Iraq permanently and bestow a "beggar's democracy" upon the Iraqi people. He is not worried about other countries around the word including the Arab countries where democracy is absent.

So Bush is no better than Saddam Hussain. It is the thinking of all Iraqis now and also of all Muslims all over the world. Am I right?