My pain in Human rights day

As I started thinking about this post there was a severe pain growing inside me, it was scratching me from the inside, it was bleeding me.
I'm going to be open…Since I was a kid and throughout my life till few days ago I have always heard about something called human rights, I heard about it a lot but I never felt it existed…I heard about it in the news and in the movie, but I have never read what are its articles, I knew that in Iraq human rights violations are something ordinary but to be honest I never imagined that about all the articles are violated in the new Iraq!! In the country where "democracy and freedom is being established to be a model country for the entire region" at least I never imagined that MY human rights have been violated so many times in so many forms, I didn't know that until I received an email from Bloggers unite about the gathering for human rights day, and that's when I thought to my self "this is a very good topic to write about, human rights in Iraq are violated in the most violent forms… but if I want to write about something then I have to know it well, I should search for the human rights declaration and read what it says, I always wanted to do so and now is the best time"…I said I'm going to be honest and open and it's not a shame if some one doesn't know but it's a shame if he doesn't know and says he knows.
To be honest I laughed when I read the declaration in the UN site…I laughed a lot but the more I laugh the more I bleed…I was laughing on the way we are living and how should humans live, I was laughing on the new democracy and freedom, I was laughing on the idiots that without any shame or disgrace show up in the TV and speak about the new Iraq and how sacrifices must be done and Iraq will be a model and everyone should help each other to build the new Iraq…what new Iraq those rats are talking about? How could they build a country in this way? Do they really want to build it depending on a foundation of humiliation, violations, sectarianism and genocides they caused and carried on?




As I was reading I was really hurt by article 9 "No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile." And 11 section 1 " Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defense." I really felt that we are not treated as humans at all when I read this article…the numbers of the people I know who were arrested arbitrary are countless and the most recent of them is my colleague dentist who was arrested in his clinic!!! He was accused later by armed robbery and GTA!!! He stayed in the jail for three weeks until he faced the judge after paying more than 3000$ just to let his case reach the judge and let him go!! He told me about an old man with him in jail…it has been two years and he is still in custody without any charges!! He was arrested by the Iraqi army in the south of Iraq because he is a Sunni so he was a suspect and he stayed in custody, then they tortured him and forced him to sign on a confession that he was responsible for the attacks on AlAskari shrines in Samara, then they made him confess that he was responsible for the explosions in AlGhazil market (although he was in jail at that time)…they want 500$ from him just to let his case reach the judge but he can't afford that, he was saying to the guards "Do something, you either kill me or let me go" as my colleague said ….and before him there was one of my relatives who was arrested with his father and kept in jail for 6 months without any charges too…he is suffering till this moment from complications in his health because of that detention, "there is no need to tell you about the torture or what they fed us or what is in the food but can you believe there is no toilet that we can use…they let us use it once in a week and we have to pee where we sleep but I couldn't shit there…that's impossible for me to do" as he told me. What can I say about exile? All the true Iraqis are living in exile even if they are still in Iraq which is a very rare case…because this Iraq is nothing like the Iraq that we know…Me and my family were forced to leave the country twice but still; here I am…although my family is far away from me and it has been about 18 months since I saw them the last time.
And as I read article 12 " No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honor and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks." I get really confused because it's something ordinary in every checkpoint that I get asked "Where are you coming from? Where are you going to?" and the times my house was searched and my drawers were searched…I didn't think that it's a violation to the human rights!!
Article 14 states that "(1) everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution. (2) This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations." This violation to the Iraqis human rights is done by most of the countries of the world and we can blame the militias, the violence, the criminals, terrorism and the sectarian government only because they forced us to seek asylum in countries that don't wish to see us at the first place, those countries that refuses the asylum are countries who signed the human rights declaration and wrote it's script but they refuse the asylum of Iraqis and prevent them from getting into their country, they are countries that always speaks of how humanitarian they are and how they respect human beings while they deny human rights for Iraqis! Aren't Iraqis human beings or what? Are Iraqis Alians or maybe they are plants? I didn't say animals because they appreciate animals more than that!!! They would do what ever it takes to save a dog or cat trapped in a tree and afraid to get down but they wouldn't move a hair for an Iraqi that struggles death despite they were basically the ones who made this Iraqi struggles death!! There are a lot more organizations to protect and save animals than organizations for saving people whether Iraqis or other nationalities from what they call "third world countries".
About article 17 section 2 that states "No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property."…well, this is something normal here, it's a normal thing if someone owns a good house in a good position and some stinky cleric or a stupid politician sends his thugs to that man and force him to leave his house because the "Big Boss" wants it?! Just like that…there is no where to go to or anywhere to ask justice from, you just leave your house that you worked so hard for many years for it…build it with your sweat and tears, you just lose it because the big boss wanted it and without paying you a dime…that's if it wasn't taken by some sectarian militia or a gang or the "security forces" or even the government it self…this happened so many times with so many people that I know.
Article 19 is even funnier "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."…there is no need to talk about this because everyone knows what will happen if someone expressed his opinion…the clearest example for this is my blog and why I had to mention only my first name without showing my face or giving any hint of who I might be…the other example is the journalism in Iraq and the dangers that surround anyone who works in this field because no matter how much one tries to be neutral he will be targeted by some party and accused of being loyal to another party, it's like everyone who talks about politics in Iraq must have an agenda or he is loyal to someone.
I tried above to mention the most violated articles of human rights declaration in Iraq…I didn't want to get deeper because I will never finish…but I felt the urge to mention: always remember when you hear the news, read in the internet or read in the blogs about the number of Iraqi casualties; always remember that every one in that number is a human who had a family, friends, dependants and a life…he isn't just a number to compare so that if it's 10 died you would say "It's getting better in Iraq now and the future seems bright" because the number used to be above 20 few weeks ago…those are people not number…don't ever get bored from the news about Iraq or anywhere else in the world where people are dying because they are humans….whenever you hear about an explosion think that it happened in real life and there were people who died...
May god have mercy on every innocent human soul.