Saddam Hanged! The day International Justice made itself irrelevant !

After a controversial invasion, spiced up capture, a botched trail, unknown witnesses behind curtains, edited court room videos, replacement of the main Judge thrice and no proper legal system in place, the end for the President of the Iraq was quick and swift.

Today morning, his death by hanging by a vengeful Shia controlled Government, brought the world to a standstill and a great silence over the Arab World. On the first day of Eid, when the Arab world awoke for Eid Prayers, the news of Saddam's end hung over the joyous occasion with no one knowing how to react or comprehend what the aftermath could hold in store for them.

The world must not forget Saddam was indeed a dictator, but he reached his height with the blessings and support of the very superpowers who were instrumental in condemning him as the fall guy and trying him for their follies and devious schemes.

Saddam would have been found guilty of his brutal excesses in any case had it been a fair and free trial in probably in a neutral country or in the International Court of Justice. Today, however the International Community and the International Justice Court must hang its head in shame for they allowed an accused to become a victim of mob justice! Had there been a proper trial, and proper execution then history would have noted it well as an example of world justice.

However, the International Community's opinion was made mockery off. World leaders must have shuddered in their shoes today, in the thought, one day this could happen to them too.

Saddam may have been silenced forever but unwittingly his enemies have made him the proverbial sacrifice to be remembered on future Eid Al Adha's for decades to come and a major figure of 20th century world history. The execution of Saddam has unleashed a can of sectarianism among the Iraqi people and the faith worldwide.

Only time will tell, what the implications of this fiasco will be. “An eye for an eye and the whole world goes blind” ~ Mahatma Gandhi.

Let it also not be forgotten, that people who advocated the use of the guillotine in the French Revolution met their own end under the blade of the guillotine.

There is an Aesop's fable written in mid-sixth century BC, which sums up best, all that is happened and happening in Iraq!

The Wolf and the Lamb

Wolf, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf's right to eat him. He thus addressed him: "Sirrah, last year you grossly insulted me." "Indeed," bleated the Lamb in a mournful tone of voice, "I was not then born." Then said the Wolf, "You feed in my pasture." "No, good sir," replied the Lamb, "I have not yet tasted grass." Again said the Wolf, "You drink of my well." "No," exclaimed the Lamb, "I never yet drank water, for as yet my mother's milk is both food and drink to me." Upon which the Wolf seized him and ate him up, saying, "Well! I won't remain supperless, even though you refute every one of my imputations." The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.

The wheel of change moves on, and those who were down go up and those who were up go down. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru, India's First Prime Minster

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"The test of a government's commitment to human rights is measured by the way it treats its worst offenders ... History will judge the deeply flawed Dujail trial and this execution harshly."

~ Richard Dicker, Director of Human Rights Watch

"The rushed execution of Saddam Hussain is simply wrong. It signifies justice denied for countless victims who endured unspeakable suffering during his regime, and now have been denied their right to see justice served."

~ Larry Cox, Executive Director, Amnesty International, USA