Informed Comment
Every day about 100 people become victims of murder and torture in Iraq. During the time of the Saddam dictatorship the use of force was at least predictable, according to the UN Special Rapporteur for Torture, Manfred Nowak, speaking in an interview with tagessschau.de. Today it can strike anyone. There are no effective mechanisms to control it — more and more it is the state itself engaged in torture.