Centre For Human Rights

Families of Victims Ready to Expose the Crime

All information received from confidential sources of our Party confirm that the campaign of mass killings, carried out by the dictatorial regime against political prisoners, have been continuing unabated, with a growing list of innocent victims.

This information reveal that hundreds more of the prisoners, who have been detained for long years, have been physically liquidated during recent weeks in a wave of horrific executions under the regime's infamous ''Prisons Clean - Up Campaign''.

Our sources have provided the names of tens of these victims. Many of them had been accused of taking part in the popular uprising in March 1991.

The bodies of some of the victims were handed over during the past two months to their families. In some other cases, the families were only told that their beloved had been executed. Among the victims are some who have been executed in the last few days of April 1998.

Several families of the victims have expressed their readiness to testify in front of the UN Human Rights Commission and other international and regional human rights organizations, and to put at their disposal all the information concerning the victims, and the conditions of their detention, imprisonment and execution.

The names of some of the victims have been stated in official orders issued by highly - placed authorities at the top of the regime's hierarchy. Among such documents is the order issued by the Secretary of the Presidential Office, dated, 24^th March 1998, addressed to the Public Security Directorate, about the handing over of the bodies of 10 victims. It demands that the Directorate follows '' the necessary instructions regarding the crime of those executed for destabilising state security and threatening national security, and withdraw their military ranks and the medals awarded to them ''.

All this refutes the claims of regime officials and spokesmen that no political prisoners were executed, and even denying that political prisoners exist. On the other hand, it also confirms once again, with irrefutable tragic evidence, that the authorities are determined to continue with their bloody campaign, showing utter contempt for the sentiments of world public opinion which has been horrified by previous successive reports about mass executions, and for its call for an immediate halt to this barbaric massacre.

As we publish today new lists continuing the names of victims, whose blood was shed unjustly and treacherously in the dictatorship's prisons, we call upon the UN Secretary General, the President of the UN Human Rights Commission, international human rights organization, and all freedom-loving people, to raise their voices once again, in condemnation of the barbaric dictatorship and demanding an end to the horrendous massacre.

The lives of thousands of our brethren are threatened with definite death if Saddam's executions machine is allowed to continue carrying out the orders of Baghdad's Butcher.

Urgent action is needed to put an immediate end to the

horror!

Save the Lives of Political Detainees in the Dictatorship's

Prisons and Dungeons

List No.1

1. Ghanem Salem Mehdi: from Bani Muslem village, al-kifel district, Babel governorate. He was arrested in April 1991, and his family was told that he was executed in late March 1998.

2. Mohammed Harbi Al-Jubouri: from Najaf town ( al-Amir district ). He had been in detention since 1987. His family was told that he was executed in late March 1998.

3. Ali Kadhem 'Alewi: from Najaf town ( al-Madina Street ). He was arrested by the special Guards in 1991. His family was told that he was executed in late March 1998.

4. Hakem Kadhem Abed Zayd: from al-Hayderiyya district (Khan al-Nus) in Najaf governorate. He was an employee at Najaf post office. He was arrested by the Special Guards in 1991. His body was handed over to his family in early March 1998.

5. Ali Mohammed Redha Du' aibel: from Najaf ( al-Ulama district ). He was a teacher in al-Kifel district. He was arrested by the Republican Guards in 1991, and his family was told that he was executed in late March 1998.

6. Sattar Mahmoud Hussein: He worked as a street cleaner in Hilla municipality. He was arrested in 1991, and his family was told he was executed in April 1998.

7. Dayekh Hassoun Al-Jubouri: from al-Qasem district in Babel governorate. He was arrested in 1991, and authorities told his family that he was executed in late April 1998.

8. Hussein Abbas Rasoul: from al-Hashemiyya district in Babal governorate. He was arrested in 1991, and his family was told that he was executed in March 1998.

9. 'Alewi Shentaf: a peasant from al-Meshkhab district in Najaf governorate. He was arrested in 1991, and was executed in late March 1998. His body was handed over to his family.

10. Humeiza Jassoum Al-Yasseri: a retired army officer from al-Mushkhab district in Najaf governorate. He was arrested in 1991, and his body was handed over to his family in early April 1998.

11. Rahi Abbas Al-Janabi: from Abu Sukhear in Najaf governorate. He was arrested in 1991, and his family has been recently told that he had been executed.

12. Hani Radhi Abdul Hassan: He was a health employee, from the town of Hilla. He was arrested in 1991, and the authorities recently told his family that he was executed.

13. Ali Jassem Al-Ashram: from the Sayyed Abdulla village, in al-Mushkhab district, Najaf governorate. He was arrested in 1993, and his family was told that he was executed in early April 1998.

14. Kadhem Khunyab Mer'ish: from al-Sleajiyya ( al-Huryya ) district in Najaf governorate. He was arrested in early 1992, and was executed in early 1998.

15. Hassoun MehdiAbbass: from al-Shanafiyya in al-Qadesiyya governorate. He was arrested in 1991, and his family was recently told that he was executed.

16. Jabr Kandouh Mayyal: from al-Diwaniyya. He was arrested in 1991, and his family was told that he was executed in late March 1998.

17. Ja'far Muhalhal Hantoush: from al-Kifel district (Babel governorate). He was arrested in 1991, and his family was told that he was executed in early April 1998.

18. Taha Yassin 'Alewi Al-Salami: a carpentry employee from al-Kufa. He was arrested in 1991, and the authorities told his family that he was executed in early March 1998.

N.B: Most of these victims, especially those who had been arrested in 1991, were executed for taking part in the March Uprising of that year.

List No.2

1. Aymen Hamza Kati' 6. Labib Tu'mah Hassan

2. Abdul Wahab Dhari Faleh 7. Ja'far Ali Muhannad

3. Islam Madhi Kadhem 8. Mousa bdul- Haq Abed

4. Khalil Ahmed Nashwan 9. Hadi Rasoul Amin

5. Hashem Ali Qassem 10. Khudher Ali Nader

N.B The above stated list of the names of victims was included ( without any further details about them ) in an official note addressed by the Secretary of the Presidential Office to the Public Security Directorate, carrying the serial number: S 252221, dated 24^th March 1998. The note conveys the decision to approve the handing over of the bodies of these victims to the above-mentioned Directorate. The text indicates that the executed were military.

List No.3.

1. Emad Salim Ali 6. Esho Qeryaqous Hanna

2. Aqeel Faysel Jassem 7. Fayez Hassan Taleb

3. Yousef Majeed Shamel 8. Mdher Saheb Ali

4. Hassan Hameed Hussein 9. Husham Mohanned Hussei

5. Qader Abbass Abdul Rahman 10. Aymen Abdul Mun'm Dhari

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