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Letter: Western conscripts

Published 17 April 2004

From Jim Ring

Your item on Saddam’s human rights abuses lists mutilation, murder, torture, kidnapping and forced military service (27 March, p 4). Large numbers of men in western democracies have suffered this last form of abuse. Should they be eligible for monetary compensation?

Nelson, New Zealand

Issue no. 2443 published 17 April 2004

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