User:Haider kalandar/Supreme National Commission for Accountability and Justice

The Supreme National Authority for Accountability and Justice, previously called: The National Authority for De-Baathification, is a national body that was established in Iraq to uproot the Baath Party that ruled Iraq during the time of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, in order to uproot its idea and liquidate its members from state departments. It is a constitutional body that was ratified in the Iraqi constitution that was drawn up. In 2005.

Authority objectives
1- Removal of senior Baath members or those involved in crimes during the time of Saddam Hussein’s regime from jobs in the public sector and the state sector. Any person has the right to defend himself before an independent judicial committee through appeal.

2- Removing the traces of the Baath from life and society, including the love of dictatorship and tyranny, the lack of respect for the opinions of others or listening to them, and the reckless individual decisions to wage wars without referring to public opinion, in addition to the extreme cruelty of humiliating and torturing others to the point of killing because they hold ideas other than those of the Baath.

3- Rehabilitating Baath cadres with new progressive, democratic ideas that respect human rights and other opinions and rejecting old, deviant ideas through courses that the Commission prepares in courses designated for them for the purpose of returning them to service, provided that they are not convicted of crimes. It is noteworthy that the Iraqi government requested, on Monday, January 26, 2010, Parliament to include punitive provisions in the Iraqi Penal Code No. (111) that criminalize and prohibit the Saddam Baath and its symbols and those who glorify and promote its ideas in accordance with the provisions of Article (7) of the Iraqi Constitution.

A source in the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers said in a statement to the National Media Center (the government agency) today, “The Secretariat was directed to take into account the recommendations of Mr. Muhammad Taher Al-Tamimi, Chairman of the Committee for Removing the Remnants of the Baath Regime, which stipulated monitoring statements that justify, promote, or glorify the Saddam Baath Party. And submit reports to the security authorities in order to take the necessary action in accordance with the provisions of the law.”

The source added that the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers directed all ministries and government agencies not affiliated with a ministry to ban entities and curricula that adopt concepts of racism, infidelity, terrorism, sectarian cleansing, incitement, glorification, promotion or justification under any name, in accordance with the committee’s recommendations.

Article Seven of the Iraqi Constitution stipulates that “Any entity or approach that adopts racism, terrorism, infidelity, or sectarian cleansing, or incites, paves the way for, glorifies, promotes, or justifies it, is prohibited, especially the Saddam Baath in Iraq and its symbols, under any name, and it may not be.” Within political pluralism in Iraq, this is regulated by law.”

It is noteworthy that this article was used by the Accountability and Justice Commission to exclude more than 500 candidates from the upcoming elections, which will be held on the seventh of next March.

The American civil governor of Iraq, Paul Bremer, had dissolved the Baath Party, which was led by the late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, after the occupation of Iraq in 2003 and formed a committee called the De-Baathification Committee, then its name was changed to the Accountability and Justice Commission currently, and the person who holds the positions of authority of this body is Curse of the Baath and its cronies for setting Iraq back 100 years