I am Greek. After WW2, we had a civil war in greece between supporters of communism and supporters of capitalism. People were very divided. This age of turbulence resulted in a cruel dictatorship. When the dictatorship fell, the dictators, like Saddam, were condemned to death. But the execution would probably cause more division and civil war. So, it was decided that the sentence remained as such, but the executions were abolished ever more. So the dictators remained in jail for the rest of their lives to remind that awful period and to help us avoid it in the future, and democracy was well established, as well as national reconciliation. I believe, as always, Greece gave a lesson of democracy and respect for human rights then and is still doing the same. Don't you think Iraq should follow this lesson, in order to avoid the -otherwise inevitable- violence and civil war?
2006-12-29
04:06:01
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