Was it right to hang Saddam Hussein ? When we talk so much about Human Rights and Peace ?

Answer 1

Yes.

Was it right to invade Iraq - no. COMPLETELY ILLEGAL, so BUSH and BLAIR should be hanged too for crimes against humanity. Doubt it would ever happen though.

Answer 2

I would have much preferred that Saddam Hussein stood trial in the Hague for Crimes Against Humanity so that all his atrocities would be out in the open, and the judicial process would have not seemed such a charade. Judges and lawyers would not have to worry about being murdered, due process would have been followed.

I am not alone in this. Many of the victims, notably Kurds whose family members were exterminated in the genocide of Anfal, would have wanted their stories to be heard by the world, rather than what has been a politically-motivated quickie trial and execution based only on the killing of a hundred Shi'ites in one village after a failed attempted political assassination.

Many commentators, including a couple in America, feel that the Bush administration wanted to get rid of Saddam to cover up the US government's complicity in his war crimes, especially when the Reagan and Bush 41 administrations stood by and not only let these crimes happen, but refused to impose sanctions on Iraq afterwards. There is also the feeling that although Saddam Hussein should have been judged harshly and suffer the most severe penalty for his atrocities, that the way proceedings were conducted was more reminiscent of a lynch-mob than a murder trial.

As to the execution itself, human rights lawyers in other countries like Malaysia where execution is by hanging, that the Iraqis did not use internationally recognized methods of weight v rope length ratios, incorrect hooding (or the failure to hood), not to mention the totally unacceptable taunting of Saddam during his execution and the large, rebellious, audience invited to attend. Executions in other "civilised" countries like Malaysia are only witnessed by a small group of people.

No matter what anybody's views of Saddam Hussein, nor of the death penalty, nor of hanging as a method of execution, the Iraqis did this whole thing very badly and made themselves look somewhat like barbarians in the eyes of the rest of the world - even the Muslim world.

Answer 3

Agree that everyone talks about human rights, but nearly all of them forget one thing. The basic human right is for a person to live, survive, exist.
Saddam deprived hundreds, if not thousands of thier basic human right, so he should forfeit his own. By hanging him, thats exactly what happened.
If any one commits murder, they should lose thier own right to exist.

Answer 4

It is never right to take any ones life. We are not capable of being perfect and not capable of judging right from wrong. If we were thousands of Innocent people would not have hung or been wrongfully imprisoned. We can never be sure what government tells us to be true, or what we see on the news. All countries have carried out monstrous crimes throughout history. Killing only causes more killing and hate.

Answer 5

Saddam was totally supported by America during his worst days of killing.

America provided full support, assisted in Iraq's financing, provided military intelligence such as satellite images to help Saddam target civilians and supplied the weapons.

America was in full collusion with Saddam during his most murderous campaigns. He was really a US puppet.

In addition, since 2003, the US have committed far more crimes and murders than Saddam ever did.

People are totally ignorant of US collusion in Saddam's crimes.

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/1223-11.htm

It's totally hypocritical to even comment on Saddam when Bush and Blair are far worse and have much more blood on their hands.

Answer 6

No this is barbarism at it worst, what a thing to do by a so called civilisation,and to answer all the blood thirsty morons !if it punishment and vengeance that give them kicks it hard to hurt a dead man.but the deciding factor has got to be what were there doing there in the first place,to stop such acts!(hypocrites)they have no grounds to rejoice at baying for blood then tell you were they to bring peace!and then act like animals.

Answer 7

sure, that's mandatory that they worry AND that folk act upon the observations. to no longer accomplish which will bring about greater community outrage, violence, killing and tyranny. that's the appropriate occasion the place it is so significant for justice to no longer in user-friendly terms be carried out, yet additionally considered to be carried out so as that peace can harm out by skill of exhibiting Iraqis and the worldwide community that regulation and order in Iraq might properly be depended directly to get issues spectacular by skill of giving defendants a honest trial/listening to regardless of who they are or with what they are charged. The Iraqi infrastructure is basically too fragile to go through a self-inflicted blow. basic people ought to work out that they are in a position to have faith in 'the gadget'. The checklist by skill of Human Rights Watch, if acted upon by skill of the government, will help Iraq gain their targets for inner peace that little bit swifter.

Answer 8

It was absolutely correct. He has killed more muslims than anyone else in history. He was tried under the laws of the iraqi government and killed like a criminal, for which he was. If he wasnt killed then all those millions of people who died and suffered because of him, would not have received justice. What about the human rights and peace of his victims?

Answer 9

The only thing wrong about hanging Soddham Hussain is that it was to quick.They should have hung him in such a way that he strangled to death and suffered like the people who suffered under him,not in the way that they did hang him so that he died of a broken neck.

Answer 10

No, he should have stood trial for the many other crimes of which he was accused.

He was hanged, I believe, at the behest of the Bush administration, because his numbers are low, his party got squished in November, and he is now a lame-duck president with no real power.

Bush needed the press coverage. That video was not an accident.