An Iraqi dissident group said today that President Saddam Hussein's government had executed six military officers for subversion.
The Centre for Human Rights, an affiliate of the Iraqi Communist Party, said three of the officers had served at the president's retreat at Tharthar, 100 miles northwest the capital Baghdad.
The six officers were executed in the first week of March and their bodies were delivered to their families, who were forbidden to hold funerals, the centre said in a fax to The Associated Press in Cairo from its London office.
The claim could not be independently confirmed. The Iraqi government does not comment on such allegations.
A United Nations Human Rights envoy to Iraq filed a report in October saying that Iraqi citizens face arbitrary execution, religious persecution, torture and forced relocation.
AP