Tadhamun (solidarity) is an Iraqi women organization, standing by Iraqi women's struggle against sectarian politics in Iraq. Fighting for equal citizenship across ethnicities and religions, for human rights, and gender equality.
جمعية تضامن تدعم المساواة في المواطنة بغض النظر عن الأنتماء الأثني أو الديني وتسعى من أجل العدالة الأجتماعية و حماية حقوق الأنسان في العراق
High-level diplomatic protests were made to Iraqi interior minister after death of Abbas Alawi while in custody of Basra police
An Iraqi criminal prisoner was tortured and beaten to death within three days of being turned over to police in Basra by British troops.
This latest detailed evidence of previously covered-up Iraq atrocities has emerged following the leak of a vast number of Iraq war logs compiled by the US army and containing hour-by-hour military field reports.
The 391,832 previously secret field reports, passed to the Guardian and other newspapers by the online whistleblowing group WikiLeaks, has already shown that US authorities failed to investigate hundreds of reports of abuse, rape and murder by Iraqi police and soldiers.
According to the new evidence, British authorities were well aware of the atrocities that were occurring in Basra and were unhappy about them.
The unit, the creation of which was announced in March, comprises 80 staff including military investigators and former Scotland Yard homicide detectives. A Ministry of Defence spokesman said: "The team is investigating all alleged cases of abuse by UK service personnel in Iraq and will identify any action that needs to be taken. We anticipate this should take around two years."
White has met Phil Shiner, of Public Interest Lawyers, who will begin a case in the high court on Friday on behalf of 142 Iraqis who claim they were abused by British troops in the aftermath of the war to topple Saddam Hussein.
This week's high court case, coming just one week after the release of thousands of classified Iraq war documents on the whistleblower website WikiLeaks, will determine whether a public inquiry should be ordered to disclose the scale of alleged abuse of Iraqis detained by British troops. MoD insiders hope White's inquiries will stem demands for a public inquiry. Critics counter that only a wide-ranging and transparent inquiry will guarantee that the true scale of the abuse comes to light.
Please note this is a video released by the UK foreign office dated 19th Dec 2008. Dr Nawal Samarie, the then minister for women affairs blew the whistle on the abuse of women prisoners in US and Iraqi custody. She resigned less than two months later.
The Independent on Sunday always knew, if Tony Blair did not, that war has a terrible tendency to go wrong. That is why the bar for resort to military action has to be set very high indeed. This weekend the diabolic consequences of a reckless American reaction to 9/11, invading a country that had no
"Although US generals have claimed their army does not carry out body counts and British ministers still say no official statistics exist, the war logs show these claims are untrue. The field reports purport to identify all civilian and insurgent casualties, as well as numbers of coalition forces wounded and killed in action. They give a total of more than 109,000 violent deaths from all causes between 2004 and the end of 2009.
This includes 66,081 civilians, 23,984 people classed as "enemy" and 15,196 members of the Iraqi security forces. Another 3,771 dead US and allied soldiers complete the body count.
However, the US figures appear to be unreliable in respect of civilian deaths caused by their own military activities. For example, in Falluja, the site of two major urban battles in 2004, no civilian deaths are recorded. Yet Iraq Body Count monitors identified more than 1,200 civilians who died during the fighting. " Iraq war logs: secret files show how US ignored torture October 22, 2010
The following query came by email from a close friend: "Salam Abu Tamam,
I have been following the Wiki Leaks documents through Al-Jazeera. I have known about the atrocities all along.
Yet I am just wondering about the lack of information relating to the role of the Mossad? How come there is absolutely no mention of them and their role in these 400,000 documents?
Who killed and is killing the scientists and the intellectuals of Iraq?
And if Iran has been blamed for their assassinations, what is their gain?"
Is it possible that the "leaked documents" mentioning the Mossad have been already filtered out?"
I kindly ask for your comment on this to be posted below.
PS:Note from another friend
"One problem with what is being reported on the WikiLeaks Iraq war logs
is the civilian death numbers are being reported as estimates. They
are not. There are documented. They are a minimum, not a reasonable
estimate. The two can be very different, especially in a situation of
massive violence." A Problem with WikiLeaks Reporting October 22, 2010
"Apparently WikiLeaks has redacted names and perhaps other information from the public version of the War Logs. This might be an obstacle, but there might be ways around this.
We at the Institute for Public Accuracy think it could be of great value if veterans and others examined the war logs and fleshed out the reports, giving the full story or made corrections of various incident reports.
Please let me know as soon as possible if you are able to do this -- and I'd encourage you to reach out to others, veterans, NGO workers and others who might be able to do this. This is an important opening to correct alot of the record of the Iraq war.
best regards,
Sam Husseini samhusseini@gmail.com
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End of post from Dr Imad Khadduri's blog Free Iraq
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Iraqi academic based in Britain and Fellow of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam
24 October 2010
This culture of violence and abuse seamlessly merges with a military practice that places almost no value of Iraqi life, including that of civilians.
The leaked and reported documents show the flimsy bureaucratic cover-up for occupation violence in its daily routine. The leaks reveal beyond doubt the direct responsibility of occupation forces for much and perhaps most of the violence in Iraq, as perpetrators or as ever present and enabling witnesses to local units the occupation has fostered and which it continue to protect, support, train and “mentor”.
لندن ـ 'القدس العربي': قال محامون بريطانيون ان الوثائق التي نشرها موقع 'ويكيليكس' يوم الجمعة عن حرب العراق قد تؤدي الى اتهامات للقوات البريطانية التي سكتت عن التعذيب والقتل المتعمد للمدنيين.
ولا تزال الوثائق وهي تقارير يومية كتبها جنود في الميدان وضباط وسط ورفعوها الى قياداتهم تكشف الكثير عن الوجه البشع للاحتلال الامريكي، وتؤكد ما سبق وتحدثت عنه المنظمات المعنية بحقوق الانسان وتقارير صحافية ونفتها القوات الامريكية والبريطانية عن سكوت هذه القوات على الممارسات البشعة والانتهاكات التي قامت بها الحكومة العراقية والدور الايراني في دعم الميليشيات الشيعية، ودور شركات التعهدات الامنية التي اسهمت في احداث الفوضى.
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24 تشرين الاول 2010
على مدى السبع سنوات الماضية تعرض الشعب العراقي وما زال يتعرض الى كل انواع جرائم الحرب,والابادة الجماعية والجرائم ضد الانسانية التي نصت على تجريمها القانون الدولي الجنائي والقوانيين الجنائية الوطنية. وقد رصدت المنظمات الدولية هذه الجرائم منذ بداية الغزو ووثقتها، وقامت جمعية الحقوقيين العراقيين عام 2009 باعداد مشروع لملاحقة مرتكبي هذه الجرائم وجرائم الفساد المالي والاداري في العراق قضائيا .
وقد تاكدت هذه الجرائم من خلال الوثائق السرية للجيش الامريكي التي نشرها مؤخرا موقع ويكيليكس الالكتروني.
بعيدا عن الوطن؛ حراك التضامن مع الوطن فنا، شعرا وكتابةً
Away from Home; Memory, Art and women solidarity: you are invited to an evening of poetry and music 22/3/2017 18:30 at P21 Gallery London click here for more details
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Public meeting at The Bolivar Hall, London Sat.14/5/2016 at 15:00 IDPs : Fragmentation of Cultural and National Identity
Protest the suffering of Iraqi Christians: No to terrorism No to state terrorism.Hands off our minorities. Hands off our people. Shame on the human rights violators on all sides. Assemble 11:30 on 28/7/14 near Parliament Square, near Westminister tube station London. For more past events click here
We women of Tadhamun condemn the persisting practice of arbitrary arrests by the Iraqi security forces. We condemn their arrests of women in lieu of their men folk. These are 'inherited' practices. We are alarmed by credible media reports of the Green Zone government’s intentions of executing hundreds of Iraqi men and women.
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المقالات المنشورة على هذا الموقع لا تعكس بالضرورة آراء منظمتنا أو أعضاء منظمتنا
Samarra Minrate built in 852 AD
Building of 1 500 massive police station !
From the angle of the photo, it is possible to calculate that the complex is being built at E 396388 N 3785995 (UTM Zone 38 North) or Lat. 34.209760° Long. 43.875325°, to the west of the Malwiya (Spiral Minaret), and behind the Spiral Cafe. While the point itself may not have more than Abbasid houses under the ground, it is adjacent to the palace of Sur Isa, the remains of which can be seen in the photo. While the initial construction might or might not touch the palace, accompanying activities will certainly spread over it.Sur Isa can be identified with the palace of al-Burj, built by the Abbasid Caliph al-Mutawakkil, probably in 852-3 (Northedge, Historical Topography of Samarra, pp 125-127, 240). The palace is said to have cost 33 million dirhams, and was luxurious. Details are given by al-Shabushti, Kitab al-Diyarat. Samarra was declared a World Heritage site by UNESCO at the end of June. The barracks could easily have been built elsewhere, off the archaeological site.-- Alastair Northedge Professeur d'Art et d'Archeologie Islamiques UFR d'Art et d'Archeologie Universite de Paris I (Pantheon-Sorbonne) 3, rue Michelet, 75006 Paris tel. 01 53 73 71 08 telecopie : 01 53 73 71 13 Email : Alastair.Northedge@univ-paris1.fr ou anorthedge@wanadoo.fr
