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Colombian Intellectuals Tax United Nations for Failure to Defend Jews of Iraq

September 3, 1969
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Secretary General U Thant and the United Nations Human Rights Commission were accused today of failure to take strong enough measures to avert the latest executions in Iraq of alleged spies for the United States and Israel. The charges were contained in messages addressed to Mr. Thant by a group of 20 Colombian professors, political writers and intellectuals and by the heads of three Jewish community organizations in Colombia.

The writers and academicians said that the Secretary-General and the Human Rights Commission had not applied “sufficient energy and efficiency” in the matter. They noted that since the beginning of the year 51 Christians. Moslems and Jews have been executed in Iraq.

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