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Three peace campaigners who were taken hostage say they "unconditionally" forgive their Iraqi captors.
Briton Norman Kember and Canadians James Loney and Harmeet Singh Sooden said they opposed the death penalty for the hostage-takers.
They said their captors caused "great suffering" to them and their families, but they held no malice towards them and had "no wish for retribution".
The men added: "The death penalty is an irrevocable judgment. It erases all possibility that those who have harmed others, even seriously, can yet turn to good. We oppose the death penalty."
Mr Kember, 74, from Pinner, north-west London, was in Iraq as part of Canadian-based international peace group Christian Peacemaker Teams.
Are the former hostages right to forgive their captors?
Would you be able to forgive them?
Should the hostages give evidence at the trial?
Briton Norman Kember and Canadians James Loney and Harmeet Singh Sooden said they opposed the death penalty for the hostage-takers.
They said their captors caused "great suffering" to them and their families, but they held no malice towards them and had "no wish for retribution".
The men added: "The death penalty is an irrevocable judgment. It erases all possibility that those who have harmed others, even seriously, can yet turn to good. We oppose the death penalty."
Mr Kember, 74, from Pinner, north-west London, was in Iraq as part of Canadian-based international peace group Christian Peacemaker Teams.
Are the former hostages right to forgive their captors?
Would you be able to forgive them?
Should the hostages give evidence at the trial?
They're Christians, it's within their beliefs to forgive people... I guess it's a method of trying to appease these terrorist nutcases. They've every right to, and are a pacifist group, what's wrong with them doing what they believe in, especially when it causes no huge problem?
Me, having a slightly different viewpoint, I'd reccomend giving the counterinsurgency and pacification methods used in Afghanistan and Iraq a good ol' seeing to, just for starters at least!
Me, having a slightly different viewpoint, I'd reccomend giving the counterinsurgency and pacification methods used in Afghanistan and Iraq a good ol' seeing to, just for starters at least!
Are they right to forgive their captors? Who are we to say? Are you right to eat bread?
Three peace campaigners who were taken hostage say they "unconditionally" forgive their Iraqi captors.
Briton Norman Kember and Canadians James Loney and Harmeet Singh Sooden said they opposed the death penalty for the hostage-takers.
They said their captors caused "great suffering" to them and their families, but they held no malice towards them and had "no wish for retribution".
The men added: "The death penalty is an irrevocable judgment. It erases all possibility that those who have harmed others, even seriously, can yet turn to good. We oppose the death penalty."
Mr Kember, 74, from Pinner, north-west London, was in Iraq as part of Canadian-based international peace group Christian Peacemaker Teams.
Are the former hostages right to forgive their captors?
Would you be able to forgive them?
Should the hostages give evidence at the trial?
Briton Norman Kember and Canadians James Loney and Harmeet Singh Sooden said they opposed the death penalty for the hostage-takers.
They said their captors caused "great suffering" to them and their families, but they held no malice towards them and had "no wish for retribution".
The men added: "The death penalty is an irrevocable judgment. It erases all possibility that those who have harmed others, even seriously, can yet turn to good. We oppose the death penalty."
Mr Kember, 74, from Pinner, north-west London, was in Iraq as part of Canadian-based international peace group Christian Peacemaker Teams.
Are the former hostages right to forgive their captors?
Would you be able to forgive them?
Should the hostages give evidence at the trial?