The British Foreign Office unveiled a 23-page human...

The British Foreign Office unveiled a 23-page human rights dossier on Iraq and Saddam Hussein entitled "the barbarity of his regime". The report stated that in Iraq's northern Kurdish region, 100,000 Kurds were killed or disappeared in 1987-88 alone. Hundreds of Shi'ite Muslim civilians, who make up more than half the population, died when security forces fired on a peaceful demonstration in early 1999, it said. Political prisoners faced "inhumane and degrading" conditions, the report said. Some prisons were "cleansed" of prisoners, including the Abu Ghraib prison where 4,000 prisoners were executed in 1984. "These grave violations of human rights are not the work of a number of overzealous individuals but the deliberate policy of the regime," the report said.