Iraq like much of the middle east is unstable. Due to the instability, upholding the rights of their people has been pushed aside as a priority, and maintaining control comes to the forefront. “The International Commission on Missing Persons estimates that the number of missing people in Iraq ranges from 250,000 to one million people. According to the International Committee of the Red Cross, Iraq has the highest number of missing people in the world,” stated in an article by Aljazeera news. This clearly shows the instability in the government not only because they are unable to prevent the initial disappearance of all these individuals but are unable to return them. The number of missing people can initially be assumed to be caused by criminal groups but the number become more disturbing when present the fact that in just 3 years there have been 74 cases of Iraqi individuals going missing do to the Iraqi government. The government has taken these individuals and has not informed the families of these individuals of their loved ones whereabouts or wellbeing. At minimum they should be made aware why their loved ones are being detained. It is a human rights catastrophe for a government to be able to detain individuals and not give their families any information and to fail to hold a trial. From a perspective of an American who is so used to my individual human rights and who values them, I am can see the unbelievable anger and disbelief these families must be feeling. I understand that in times of instability regimes use every method possible to regain or maintain there power but not circumstances should that be at the cost of basic human rights. I believe that the Iraqi government should be held accountable for, at minimum, releasing the whereabouts of these individuals.
