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Death sentence for Tariq Aziz draws international condemnation
Published: 27 October, 2010, 22:16
Edited: 29 October, 2010, 13:29
An Iraqi journalist watches a live broadcast on state television showing Iraq's former deputy premier Tareq Aziz sitting in the dock as the supreme criminal court passes a verdict of "deliberate murder and crimes against humanity," and sentencing him to death, on October 16, 2010 (AFP Photo / Ahmad Al-Rubaye)
TAGS: Crime, Military, Religion, UN, EU, Russia, Politics, Iraq
Russia has called on Iraq to cancel the death sentence for Tariq Aziz – as has the EU, the UN and the Vatican.
Russian Foreign Ministry said that “the decision adopted by Iraq’s Supreme Criminal Court does not match a tendency to abandon the death penalty as a measure of punishment that is being firmly established within the international community.”
“In any case, we would like to hope that the Presidency Council of Iraq will not permit the enactment of the sentence,” the ministry added.
The EU also disagreed with the Iraqi court’s decision, calling it “unacceptable.”
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton’s representative said that she “will appeal to Baghdad to block the execution.”
As for the UN, its stance on the death sentence is well known, said Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon’s spokesperson, Martin Nesirky.
He stressed that the UN is against the death sentence and in this case, as in all others, it is calling for the verdict to be cancelled.
The Vatican asked Iraqi authorities not to carry out the death sentence against Aziz, a Christian. This, the Vatican spokesman said in a statement, would help reconciliation, peace and justice, the Reuters news agency reported.
The death sentence for Tariq Aziz, a political ally of Saddam Hussein and Iraq’s former deputy prime minister, was handed down on October 26. Aziz was convicted of participating in a Saddam-orchestrated campaign to persecute Shiites.
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This Iraqui regimen is continuing the same Sadam's beahaviour of kiling the oppositors as criminal people. Mr Maliki, doing the same, is sending message to all the Wordl that every those ones commiting those acts, like him and Sadam, must be hanged with their aids. Mantaining this kind of alleged justice, neither Maliki nor no one is out of this law of permanent kiling. At one time, Sadam did that under accusation as kilers and betrators; nos, now, is the time to them killing Sadam and aids under accusation that they have kiled somemody; later, accusated to kill those ones, comes the time to hang Maliki and aids. After, others kiling the kilers of Maliki and Talabani, and so on. This is unacceptable, no one clever or at least normal man can understand this permanent invitation to killl and be killed!
My proposal is to exchange the two American male hikers being detained in Iran for the saving of the life of Tariq Aziz. I agree with the British PM Jeremy Corbyn that to hang Tariq Aziz is unacceptable in today's civivlized world. I strongly believe that an exchange is possible if the proposal is presented properly to all related parties. Lisa
This atrilce keeps it real, no doubt.