No doubt, when the Iraqi government or to be exact, the Americans decided to bring Saddam Hussein to the gallows, have thought that the mass murderer would ever rise to the status of a martyr. The trial was carried out; rather than simply kill him, in order to prove that Saddam was a mass murderer and deserved to die. The legal proceedings were tragically missed opportunities to demonstrate that justice can be done, even in the case of one of the greatest crooks of our time.
Saddam Hussein’s mass murder of Shias and of Kurds, I don’t remember, drew a single syllable of protest from the Arab League or any significant Arab body but his execution in some parts of the world is sadly trying to raise the mischief to the status of martyr.
Who’s responsible for this?
Largely every one would blame America and the way he was treated. The calm way he went to his death can also be credited that is helping to turn him into a martyr figure, and the worse is following, yesterday Libya said it would raise a statue of Saddam. Libya declared three days of mourning after Saddam’s death and cancelled public celebrations around the Eid religious holiday.
Saddam’s execution, which shows observers yelling, “Go to hell” and chanting the name of a Shiite cleric and militia leader before Saddam falls through the trapdoor, has inflamed sectarian passions in a country already on the brink of sectarian civil war.
There’s more to follow in Iraq
Despite the international condemnation of the way the death sentence was carried out, Iraq will press ahead with the executions of Saddam Hussein’s half-brother and an ex-judge. There were reports that Barzan al-Tikriti, Saddam’s half-brother and the former intelligence boss, and former judge Awad al-Bander would be executed yesterday. Ban Ki-moon the United Nations’ new secretary general, backed calls for Iraq not to execute the two men, who were sentenced to death for the killings of 148 Shiites but to the law of the land or won’t be wrong to call it a ‘death city,’ death sentence could not be overturned.
Via: Scotsman
