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Article: BARNEY IS IRRITATING ... BUT TORTUROUS?(Editorial)(Column)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- June 4, 2003
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Byline: JONATHAN GURWITZSyndicated columnist
SAN ANTONIO -- Since the liberation of Iraq in April, mass graves of Saddam Hussein's victims have been found across the country by coalition forces and Iraqi civilians.
A site discovered in early May 60 miles south of Baghdad, holding the bodies of as many as 15,000 men, women and children executed by the Baathist regime, may be the largest yet.
As the arduous task of locating such sites and trying to identify the victims grinds on and the hunt for the criminals who perpetrated these crimes continues, it's good to know that Amnesty International has its priorities straight.
The human ...