>From: "Khaled" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Amnesty International" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > "amnesty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: From Iraq > > The Regime Suppresses Women in Iraq for �Honor� Reasons >It has been a month since the Baath regime has launched a campaign against >women in Iraq in the areas controlled by its authority. The campaign has >headed by �Ali Hassan� in Al-Dourl/Mosul by killing ten women under a pretext >of cleansing the mentioned city from �prostitution�. Fidayeen Saddam >(Saddam�s Commandos), the Baath Party Organization and the General Federation >of Iraqi Women launched an unprecedented vicious campaign in the centre of >Baghdad city/Albayaa district/ 52 Street and Alsaidiaya area where heads were >cut off and hanged on the houses� walls of the victims. The news confirmed >that new bills have been passed state terms of 3-5 years-prison sentences for >women if proved that she practices prostitution. The �People�s Assemblies� in >residencies areas have been informed and the authority to cast out those women >practicing prostitution to another area. > > > >These barbaric and reactionary practices are not confined to women only, but >this time the regime has chose the prostitutes to experience its suppressive >policy, and insult the human dignity, to intensify and expand its oppressive >policy within the current political situations, where the people of Iraq >aspiring for freedom and any opportunity to express their opinions and their >indignation against the dictatorial nationalist t regime, and aspiring to >liberate themselves of this arrogant bloodthirsty regime. > > > >The Baath regime works to intensify its oppression and suppression through >cruel practices, which satisfy the reactionary Islamists. The regime aimed at >confronting a phenomenon leading to restore all the reactionary traditions of >the Islamic conquests era. It practically practices Anfal operations and >enforcing the Quran�s instructions in the centre of Baghdad City to block the >way before any progressive movement. Through these practices the regime >confirms that if the sanctions were lifted and its relations were improved >with the international community, the people in Iraq will gain nothing. The >regime�s message is �your portion is nothing but oppression, you have to >starve, you�re deprived of freedom and right of expression and if you express >your indignation, then we have the guillotine and Saddam�s Fedayeen to perform >all kinds of mass killing. > > > >In the seventies and amid of eighties, the same regime had officially signed >contracts to bring prostitutes from Philippine, Thailand and other countries >from south east Asia to Iraq to hire them via the Ministry of Employment and >Social Affairs in the casinos and night clubs in Baghdad, Mosul and Basrah. >The regime had permitted to practice prostitution officially in the mentioned >cities. Nowadays, the people in Iraq has inflicted with this bloody regime, >the economic sanctions and low wages (monthly salary ranges between U.S $ 2 � >3), the fearful inflation and widespread unemployment as well as the >oppression and the restoration of the reactionary Islamic laws over the past >ten years. Briefly, the situations of misery, deprivation of political and >civil laws have been forced people to practice prostitution and another >vocations to provide the food of the day for their children. > > > >The Baath regime �the dictator of the time� resorts to official mass killing >of the people in Iraq while its duty is to secure their living and their basic >rights in expressing their freedom. Therefore, the only response to the >regime�s practices is to be ousted and replace it with a government that >protects the human dignity; we mean a socialist government. > > > >We condemn these barbaric practices of the Baath regime and we implore all the >freedom lovers all over the world, human rights organizations, Amnesty >International, all women organizations and the progressive forces to condemn >it and force the regime to stop and abolish it. We call to stop associating >with the �General Federation of Iraqi Women� and disclose it and ban it from >participating in any conference or any international woman meeting. We have >to force this regime to stop these actions and to secure the women�s rights >and those who practice prostitution and protect their human dignity and >constitute laws that guarantee their rights and their right to form a >vocational organization that defend their demands. > > > >Down with the dictatorial Baath regime >Long-Live the socialist government > > > >Abroad Organization >The Worker Communist Party of Iraq > >October 29, 2000 > > > > > >Tel: 00358405068360 > >Fax: 00448701635750 > >E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi _______________________________________________________ Kominform list for general information. 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