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Kurdistan warns of failure to document
Saddam's anti-Kurdish crimes
31.12.2006
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Erbil, Kurdistan
Region (Iraq), December 30,-- The Iraqi region of
Kurdistan hoped here Saturday that ousted Iraqi
president Saddam Hussein's execution would not be
used as an excuse to avert the documentation of his
crimes against Kurdish people, a spokesman for Iraqi
Kurdistan presidency said.
"We hope that Saddam's execution would lead to
turning over a new chapter among the Iraqi people,
and to ending innocent people's sufferings," he
said.
He added "We also wish that the execution would not
be used as an excuse to register crimes committed
against Kurds." Saddam Hussein ruled Iraq with a rod
of iron in 1979-2003.
He was sentenced to capital punishment on November
5, 2006 for the killing of 148 Shiite villagers in
north Baghdad.
Saddam, who was arrested by US forces in December
2003, was executed by
hanging early Saturday.
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Chemical attacks
by Saddam regime against the Kurds in Kurdistan
(Northern Iraq) killing more than 180,000 Kurds |
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But Saturday's execution also brought to an end his
prosecution in a separate case in which he is
charged with genocide in the deaths of around
182,000 Kurds during the 1988 Anfal campaign by
Iraqi security forces.
Prosecutors have said the case will go ahead with
Saddam's six surviving co-defendants, but that the
late dictator will no longer figure in the list of
the accused.
Other planned prosecutions, including one for the
notorious poison gas attack on the Kurdish town of
Halabja in 1988, may be dropped altogether.
"We hope that Saddam Hussein's execution will open a
new chapter among Iraqis and the end of using
violence against civilians," said a statement from
the office of Kurdish regional president Massoud
Barzani.
"It is important the execution should not be a
pretext for not documenting the crimes of Anfal and
Halabja, and the mass killing against thousands of
the Kurds and Barzanis. Curtains should not be
closed on these issues."
AFP | kuna net.kw
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