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Hasan Suroor
LONDON: Tariq Aziz, the former Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq, has called for international help to end his "dire situation'' saying that the conditions in which he and other erstwhile Iraqi leaders are being held in a U.S.-run jail near Baghdad are in breach of the Geneva Convention on treatment of prisoners of war. The appeal is contained in letters, which a British newspaper on Sunday claimed, Mr. Aziz had written from his prison cell to highlight his plight. The letters, in English and Arabic, were said to be addressed simply to "world opinion'' and appealed for intervention. The Observer, which published the letters, said the most recent ones were written last month when he was being questioned by U.S. Senators in connection with the oil-for-food programme scandal. In one letter, Mr. Aziz complained that he was denied any contact with his family and was "totally isolated from the world''. "There are 13 other detenus here, but we have no meetings or telephone contacts with our families. I have been accused unjustly, but to date no proper investigation has taken place. It is imperative that there is intervention into our dire situation and treatment. It is totally in contradiction to international law, the Geneva Convention and Iraqi law as we know it,'' he wrote. In another letter, written in March, Mr. Aziz appealed for "fair treatment, a fair investigation and finally a fair trial'', and said: "Please help us.''
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