Rights and wrongs

COMMENTING on Saddam’s execution, Iraq’s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said: “Our respect for human rights requires us to execute him”.

What an extraordinary thing to say. Why inflict on Saddam the same form of brutality he inflicted on others?

Do two wrongs make a right?

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