Six Iraqi women who said they or their families were...

Six Iraqi women who said they or their families were brutalised by Saddam Hussein's dictatorship called for the Iraqi leader to be indicted for war crimes, and said regime change was the only way to save their desperate nation.
However, they said they hoped Hussein could be deposed without war.
"The Iraqi people have been living in a state of war for 30 years," said Nazand Beghakani, a founder of the International Kurdish Women Study Network.
"I'm calling on the international community to stop this war that has been forced on the Iraqi people."
Representing a handful of the country's different ethnic communities, the women told a Paris news conference of deaths and disappearances of their relatives, the beheading of innocent women, and of living under daily threat.
They called on the international community to help halt ethnic cleansing and oppression of minorities in Iraq, to investigate the disappearance of thousands of Iraqis and to send Hussein before an international war crimes tribunal.
Aida Ussayran, a member of the Union of Iraqi Democrats, fled her native land 25 years ago after being jailed three times for pro-democracy activism and after her son was executed.
"My story is no different than any other political activist living under a cruel regime," she said.
"The regime is merciless in its bitter pursuit of any innocent man, woman or child."
The women also denounced the systematic beheading of innocent women who belonged to families suspected of opposing Hussein's regime.
Ussayran said 16 women were decapitated in front of their children three months ago.
In the north, Iraq's Christian Assyrians have suffered cultural oppression and thousands have been forced to leave the country, said Pascale Isho, a member of the Assyrian Women's Union.