Yesterday early morning, I found the terrible news that killed Saddam Hussein. The news hit me very badly. I left feeling like powerlessness, injustice and shameful fact that we have stopped making .
As a humanist I am against the death penalty. It seems absurd, useless, degradatoria to man, and above all, irreversible.
And in the case of Saddam Hussein particular, his death was a scene of international hypocrisy.
still dying in Iraq while hundreds of people every day, almost one million troops since they entered, according to sources and unofficial estimates (and therefore more credible) - The world is looking the other hand, Abul and without reacting.
This killing makes small even to the atrocities committed by the former dictator.
Trial (totally illegal) for which he was sentenced to death, was finely planned: it is ridiculous that Saddam Hussein is sentenced for the killing of 125 civilians in a village, when gassed with chemical gases to the Kurds in northern Iraq , killing dozens thousands of Kurds.
But that absurdity has its rationale: in the event that it should be on trial for the gassing of the Kurds in the research process would bare and documented who supplied the chemical weapons were used there: Guess who? Exactly!, The United States. Then
course of action seems to have been "killed in any way and for any excuse to Hussein and did not reach the trial of the Kurds."
The second big hypocrisy in the matter is that Saddam Hussein was not held by the Iraqi government, was a prisoner of war by U.S. troops.
These troops then put it available to the government Iraqi after the sentence had been confirmed. That is, handed him over to be executed.
This clashes with the U.S. attitude to Posada Carriles. Posada Carriles is a prime example of the double face of empire while the world goes to declaim that combating terrorism remains protected in its territory to the Cuban terrorist, responsible for placing a bomb in a Cuban commercial jet which killed all passengers (civil) on Venezuela, a few decades ago.
The issue is that for a misdemeanor (lack of immigration papers) this terrorist was temporarily imprisoned in the U.S., a fact which was immediately seized by the Venezuelan justice for seek his extradition to try him for crimes committed on its territory. The response was amazing: the prisoner would not be delivered because "they were guaranteed their rights and their life could be endangered."
And on the other hand delivered to Saddam Hussein to his death. Have you ever seen so great falsehood?
For all this, and rather more, I felt the death of the media, almost circus, as a tremendous injustice.
Diego
DiegoHumanista@gmail.com
Note: as there is no objectivity, I expose some of my ideas and beliefs which motivates and permeates this article:
- All people should be responsible for their actions.
- Everyone deserves a fair trial with all guarantees of the law.
- The death penalty is not an option, as aberrant as it may appear the crime.
