Britain to release report on Saddam's "horrific human rights abuses"
LONDON, Dec 1 (AFP) - Britain will on Monday release a report listing acts of "torture, rape and other horrific human rights abuses" carried out "as part of the deliberate policy" of Saddam Hussein's regime in Baghdad, the Foreign Office said.
"The aim is to remind the world that the abuses of the Iraqi regime extend far beyond its pursuit of weapons of mass destruction in violation of its international obligations," Foreign Secretary Jack Straw will say in a speech presenting the document.
It comes two months after Britain produced a report saying Iraq was as little as a year or two away from having a nuclear bomb and could deploy chemical and biological weapons in under 45 minutes.
The latest dossier "makes for harrowing reading, with accounts of torture, rape and other horrific human rights abuses," Straw will say, according to a copies of the speech released in advance.
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