"Iraq worse now than under Saddam”

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“Torture, abuses worse than under Saddam”

3/2/2006 | Al Jazeera

Human rights abuses in Iraq are worse than they were under Saddam Hussein, John Pace, the UN’s outgoing human rights chief in Iraq said Thursday.

Pace, who left his post last month, said that there is an increase in the level of extra-judicial executions and torture in Iraq.

"Under Saddam, if you agreed to forgo your basic right to freedom of expression and thought, you were physically more or less OK," Pace said in an interview with The Associated Press. "But now, no. Here, you have a primitive, chaotic situation where anybody can do anything they want to anyone."

The scale of atrocity now "extends over a much wider section of the population than it did under Saddam."

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