Statement of the Federation of Workers’ Councils and Union in Iraq-Representation Abroad on the recent attacks on workers and labour activists

January 7, 2005

On Wednesday 5 January 2005, bodies of 18 workers were discovered in a farm near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul all shot on head early last month while in their way to Mosul. These workers were residents of Baghdad lured to Mosul by promising them with jobs at a US base in this city.    

On the other hand an activist of the Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions was strangled in his own house in Baghdad using a wire. Few other attacks were reported elsewhere against workers and activists of IFTU.

The Federation of Workers’ Councils and Unions in Iraq rapidly condemns these barbaric acts against workers and labour activists. Despite of our difference with IFTU, we strongly condemn all attacks on its activists and members.  These brutalities are part of the terrorist war between the USA and its allies and the Islamo-ethnocentric resistance in Iraq and show the anti-human essence of this resistance.

The occupation forces and local authority are responsible for the safety of workers and worker activists.

The Federation of Workers’ Councils and Unions in Iraq express it sympathy with the families and friends of workers killed in these brutal acts.

FWCUI-Abroad Representation