After five years of mass murder, rape and destruction, the human rights situation in Darfur is dire. Take action now: Urge UN rights chief Navi Pillay to speak out for the victims of Darfur.
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Issue 216 • February 2, 2010
The Human Rights Council's Rogues' Gallery of Advisors
Ali Hassan Majeed, the Iraqi general known as “Chemical Ali” for ordering poison-gas attacks on Kurdish civilians, was hanged in Baghdad after a special tribunal handed him his fourth death sentence. Meanwhile, at the Human Rights Council in Geneva last Monday, Halima Warzazi, the woman who presonally shielded the Saddam regime from international censure over these gas attacks was seated as Chair of the 47-nation body's Advisory Committee.
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