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| | Bahai News -- US Department of State - Kirkpatrick Says Rights Commission Must Help Ameliorate Abuses |
 | | His one-man, one-party police state is a model of arbitrary government." The appalling human rights situation in Iraq, Kirkpatrick said, "is not the cause of the current military operations by the U.S.-led coalition inside Iraq. |
 | | But the effect of the outcome will most certainly be to improve that situation and to restore to the long-suffering Iraqi people their personal freedoms and dignity." Kirkpatrick also discussed the human rights situation in other countries around the world, including Cuba, Burma, China, Togo, Turkmenistan, Iran, North Korea and Belarus. |
 | | Calling on the commission to face the task confronting it, Kirkpatrick said the victims of abuses in these countries "cry out for meaningful action." The 59th session of the Commission on Human Rights runs March 17 to April 25. |
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