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Urgent appeal from
Iraqi Diplomats Association to:
International Committee of the Red Cross
(ICRC).
All legal and humanitarian institutions
worldwide, governmental and
non-governmental.
The International public opinion.
The Iraqi sectarian Government established
under the US occupation is about to agree
with the occupying power to transfer all
Iraqi prisoners of war (POW) and detainees
held in the Baghdad International Airport
prison from US authority to its authority.
This information was confirmed by the
American airport prison authority who
informed the defense lawyers of Iraqi POW
that beginning with 31 March 2008 it will
relinquish the responsibility of their
safety during their visits to the prison
.This means that the handover is imminent,
and a new carnage
is about to take place,
similar to that when president Saddam
Hussein and his comrades were handed over to
the same sectarian Government and its
Militias.
The International
public opinion witnessed the mockery of law
of the illegal Iraqi High Criminal Court .In
addition to its illegal status, the court
lacks the minimum conditions for fair trial
.This illegal Court was established mainly
to revenge Iraqi legitimate leadership and
to propagate the sectarianism and ethnic
cleansing in Iraq . Iraqi POW and detainees
could also face summary execution and
dropped in the streets of Baghdad as
(unidentified tortured and killed bodies).
The ICRC has a
permanent mandate to take impartial action
to uphold International Humanitarian Law ,
supervise its implementation, denounce its
violations ,and endeavors to stop these
violations .The ICRC is well aware that
United Nations Security Council Resolution
1546(2004), which pretended the end of US
occupation of Iraq , was a flagrant
violation of the International Law. Iraq is
still under the rule of the occupying power.
Thus, the rules of the International
Humanitarian Law are still applicable to the
Iraqi POW and detainees in US detention
centers. Article 118 of Third Geneva
Convention of 1949 stipulates that
(Prisoners of war shall be released and
repatriated without delay after the
cessation of active hostilities.). The US
declared the end of its military operations
in Iraq the first of May 2003. Furthermore,
the US did not announce any judicial
prosecution on Iraqi PWO during their
detention, which could justify the
continuation of their detention.
The transfer of Iraqi
POW to the Iraqi Government and its Militias
to try them for (crimes) in carrying out
their official duties before the US invasion
is illegal too. Art 99. of Third Geneva
Convention of 1949 stipulates that ( No
prisoner of war may be tried or sentenced
for an act which is not forbidden by the law
of the Detaining Power or by international
law, in force at the time the said act was
committed).
We call upon the ICRC
to shoulder its responsibilities under the
International Law, and use all means
permissible by the International Law to
grant the release of all Iraqi POW's and
detainees and grant their safety.
We call upon all legal
and humanitarian institutions worldwide,
governmental and non-governmental, to act
now to prevent the looming carnage of Iraqi
POW by the sectarian illegal Iraqi
Government and its Militias.
We call upon all states and the United
Nations to speak up immediately and work for
the release of Iraqi POW.
We call upon the UN Security Council to
affirm the legal basis governing
international relations and in particular
the fundamental norms of international
humanitarian law. US occupation of Iraq
should end and Iraqi POW should by release
immediately.
Iraqi Diplomats Association
Baghdad-Iraq- 26 Jan.2008.
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الدبلوماسيين العراقيين الى الصليب الأحمر
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