put into plastic bags to be used for fish food.”

“Women were hung up by their heels in public while menstruating to shame them.”

“They beat me until my skin broke and bled, they hung me up by my feet, they used electrical shock on my lips, my fingers and my nipples. They made me walk on broken glass. They allowed they soldiers to rape me. They did this for 11 months and then they sentenced me to 3 years in jail. They sentenced my mother to 9 months. They killed my farther and his brothers. -16 year old school girl because her teachers found a note she wrote saying there was some things about the government she did not like.

--eye witness reports on how Saddam treats his own people.

Horriblepatients. publicly executed suspected rebels and destroyed their homes. people were told by loudspeaker to evacuate the city for their own safety within 24 hours and head north. When the people of the city had concentrated in its northern suburbs, helicopters opened fire.

Karbala Karbala, 50 miles north of al-Najaf, suffered the heaviest damage of all the major cities. The rebellion there began on 5th March, 1991. artillery and helicopter bombardment of the city by Iraqi government forces began the next day. some of Shi'a Islam's holiest shrines were destroyed. Other shrines were used as centres for murder, torture and rape. there was deliberate concentration of fire on Al-Husseini hospital and many of its doctors and nurses were executed. Patients were thrown out of windows. there were mass executions