Seanad debates
Tuesday, 4 November 2003
Humanitarian Issues in Post-War Iraq: Statements.
The pain is that the UN and the International Red Cross, representatives of which I met in Colombia, look at everything from the perspective of human rights. The International Red Cross will ensure that even senior members of Saddam's administration captured by the US Government get a fair trial. Since its foundation, the International Red Cross has been seen as a totally independent human rights organisation. It is a tragedy that ex-patriates from the organisation and the UN must be taken out of Iraq and placed in Kuwait, Jordan and other countries. Our generation has always looked up to the International Red Cross.
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