UN rights chief tells Bush's Iraqi puppets to stop with all the executions already

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http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyID=2007-01-03T184031Z_01_L03223714_RTRIDST_0_CANADA-IRAQ-SADDAM-ARBOUR-COL.XML

GENEVA (Reuters) - United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour on Wednesday appealed to Iraq not to execute two ex-officials from the administration of former president Sadam Hussein.

An earlier appeal from Arbour not to carry out a death sentence on Saddam himself, executed last Saturday, was brushed aside by the authorities in Baghdad.

Arbour said she had sent her latest appeal -- referring to Saddam's half-brother and former intelligence chief Barzan al-Tikriti and a former chief judge, Awad al-Bander -- directly to Iraqi President Jalal Talabani.

"International law, as it currently stands, only allows the imposition of the death penalty as an exceptional measure within rigourous legal constraints," said the former Canadian High Court justice.

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1. hey, that 'liberated' Iraq is really off to a great start in the international community, no?

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