id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt pst.000017591218 United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. United States policy toward Iraq : human rights, weapons proliferation, and international law : hearing before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred First Congress, second session, June 15, 1990 4.F 76/2:S.hrg.101-1055 1990 .txt text/plain 44926 2998 64 continue to violate human rights on a widespread scale, the United States and Iraq If, however, Iraq plays an increasingly responsible role and cooperates with international efforts to control proliferation of non-conventional weapons, and improve its abysmal human rights record, the U.S.-Iraq relationship will For years execution has been an established Iraqi method for dealing with perceived political and military opponents of the government, including, but not limited to, members of the outlawed Da'wa organization (an Iran-supported fundamentalist Shi'a Muslim group that has engaged in acts of international terrorism). Since then Amnesty International has registered its concerns on numerous occasions with the U.N. Commission on Human Rights and directly with the government of Iraq. (1) Amnesty International believes that the abuses by the government of Iraq constitutes a gross and persistent pattern of internationally-recognized human rights In December 1989, Amnesty International received reports that the Iraqi Government was seeking the extradition of 138 Kurds from refugee camps in Diyarbakir ./cache/pst.000017591218.pdf ./txt/pst.000017591218.txt