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“Where Are Human Rights… ?”: Reading a Communique from Iraq

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Thomas Keenan
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Where are human rights when more than 200 Muslims are rotting for months in your prisons in a 4x5-meter room, without any of them finding a place even to sit down? Where are human rights when every day prisoners are tortured at the hands of drunken pagans? Where are human rights when Muslims are killed as a result of the torture of your executioners, and their bodies are thrown out in the open? (“Jaish Ansar al-Sunnah”)

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PMLA , Volume 121 , Issue 5 , October 2006, pp. 1597 - 1607
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2006

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