It was estiminated that there could be up to 100 or more mass graves throughout the Iraqi desert, the Labour conference was told. The conference was also told of the victims of Saddams' seceret police and torturers with reports of people who had had hands or ears cut of or had been pierced or branded with hot irons. In Iraq under Saddam the penalty for slandering Saddam was to have the tongue pierced with a red hot iron. Other torture methods including forcing victims to stand in acid until their feet were burned off. In one case Iraqi dissidents were fed into a machine for shreding plastic. They died screaming in agony and came out mashed up like mince meat. The victims of the Baath regime included children and women. In one incident when one of Saddam's sons Uday fell out with a girl he had her buried up to her wast and set starving dogs on her to rip her apart. Saddam's sons Uday and Qusay were personally responsible for dozens of murders and tortures. The Labour conference was left in silence at the revalations. Delegates then stated that this proved that Tony Blair was right to take military action against Iraq to overthrow Saddams regime.