Iraqi genocide fear

May 14 2003

By The Evening Chronicle

A mass grave outside Baghdad which may contain the remains of up to 15,000 bodies provides justification for the war in Iraq, Saddam Hussein's former head of protocol said today. Haitham Rashid Wihaib said he believed the grisly discoveries at al-Mahawil, where more than 3,000 human remains have already been uncovered, was a "crime against humanity". "This is not just a crime against the Iraqi people, it is a crime against all of humanity," he said. "It is like the genocide during the Second World War, and in Rwanda, and in other places in the world. "It really justifies the war against Iraq."