European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 24, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday november 24, 1994 the stars and stripes Page 13 maiming iraqis United nations a Iraq has been branding an a into the forehead of deserters amputating the right Handoff thieves and assassinating political dissidents the United nations said in Are port released tuesday. The United states has Long demanded that Iraq improve its human rights record before Washington would support the lifting of the crushing . Economic embargo against Iraq. The report is Likely to increase opposition in the Security coun cil to easing the sanctions. The chilling report by . Human rights investigator Max Van Der Stoel was based on interviews with iraqis in Kuwait Iran and Britain. Iraq has refused to cooperate with . Human rights investigators. Of. The situation of human rights in Iraq in All spheres whether civil cultural eco nomic political or social has deteriorated in the last year the report said. The systematic maiming of deserters evaders and thieves has reportedly in stilled sufficient fear into the population so As to invoke better compliance with conscription orders the report said Iraq passed decrees this summer ordering the amputation of the right hand of thieves and the tattooing of an a Between the eyebrows of certain criminals deserters or anyone who shelters draft evaders or decrees also ordered the amputation of an ear of draft evaders deserters orthoses who shelter them. The report said the a is usually branded and not tattooed on the fore head. /. A a punishment is odious to the very concepts underlying human rights the report decrees stated that anyone who assists in the removal of such a Markor carries out cosmetic surgery on an amputated hand or ear should suffer the same Fate. V ". .".,iraqi television broadcast footage in september of a convicted criminal who had been branded and had his hand Cut off the report said. The Man identified As Ali Ubaid Abed Ali was shown in a state of Shock his forehead appeared to have been branded the stump of his right Arm was bandaged and the severed hand was shown lying on a Blue had been convicted of stealing a television and 250 iraqi Dinar 50 cent the report report said that hundreds of deserters have had their ears Cut off an that several died of infection or Hemor raging As a result of the mutilations. It added it seems intolerable that the government of Iraq would purposely divert limited health resources to such an apparent reference to iraqi re ports of civilian hardship because of . Sanctions the report said the obvious imbalance Between military expenditures and resources allocated in the Fields of health care and nutrition continues to illustrate clearly the priorities of the government of report demanded that Iraq repeal the decrees and agree to the stationing of human rights monitors in the country. The report also documented political assassinations reportedly carried out by iraqi agents and called on Iraq to provide information on kuwaitis reported missing after iraqi troops were driven out of Kuwait in 1991. Heavy training the russian army has its own form of hey you projects. Such work earns the military which is chronically Short of on tuesday troops went to work on the Moscow rail system funds extra Money. . Panel takes shot at lifting pet quarantine London a rabies prevention Laws that Force thousands of cats and dogs to spend six months in quarantine when they enter Britain Are no longer needed says a committee of British Law makers. " Xiv the House of commons agriculture select committee recommended in a re bullets mailed. i to eur backers As vote hears Oslo Norway a Norway s prime minister and other pro european Union leaders have received live Rifle bullets inthe mail apparently As threats Over next week s referendum enjoining the eur officials said wednesday. Oivind Ostend spokesman for prime minister Gro Harlem Brundtland said the bullets were turned Over to police for investigation. It was not known who sent the bullets and nobody has claimed responsibility. Of Teng would not say whether Security around the prime minister had been tightened. That is something that is up to the police he said. Norwegians Are in the midst of an emotional debate leading up to monday s National referendum on whether to join the european Union. The no Side leads in most polls. Brundtland said she could not Overlook the possibility that the Bullet her office received tuesday was sent by an opponent of membership. It would take a lot for it to have come from someone who agrees with me. I have never gotten such a letter before she said. Norwegian fisheries minister Jan Henry. Olsen and the Leader of the pro eur european movement Inge Lonny a also received live rounds of Rifle ammunition. I last week an opponent of membership said in a letter to the daily newspaper of Tenoosten that government officials Wouldhave been shot for treason if they had presented the current agreement on eur membership in 1946, just after the nazi occupation of Norway ended. No link Between the letter and the mailed bullets has been suggested. Port released wednesday that quarantine should be replaced by a vaccination and blood testing system for animals imported from the european Union and other approved countries. Scientific advances now make it not Only feasible but desirable for Britain to permit anti rabies controls based upon vaccination and blood testing the com Mittee report said. Under the proposal animals would be vaccinated against rabies in the country from which they were exported. If a blood test Given four months later proved an immunity to rabies then the pets could travel with their owners to Britain. 21-27 nov 94ramstein o. 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