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Chemical Ali to be hanged after Lesser
Bairam
15.10.2007
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Anfal
convicted officials to be hanged after Lesser
Bairam-Eid al-Fitr
October
15, 2007
BAGHDAD, -- The Head of the Court of
Cassation and Spokesman for the Iraqi Supreme
Criminal Court, Mounir Hadad, on Monday said that
the three former officials who were convicted in the
anti-Kurd Anfal case would be executed by hanging
after Lesser Bairam (Eid al-Fitr), stressing that
the presidential council has no authority to ratify
the execution decision.
"The execution of the three former officials will be
implemented after the Eid al-Fitr," Hadad told said.
"No one has the authority to stop the execution," he
affirmed.
"The Presidential Council has no authority to veto
the decision and there is no need to ratify it," the
judge also said.
"The clause number "72" is clear, as it gave no
right to the presidential council to ratify the
execution," he explained. |
Ali Hassan al-Majid, first cousin of executed
dictator Saddam Hussein and also known as 'Chemical
Ali', 'Butcher of Kurdistan' sentenced to death over Kurdish genocide, AP |
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The death sentences sparked heated controversy in
Iraqi circles after Sunni Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi
sent a message to the State Shura [Consultative]
Council in which he indicated that carrying out the
sentences requires a presidential decree.
The National Legal Consultation Council NLCC said
last month that it is not legal to implement the
death sentences handed down by the Supreme Criminal
Court without a presidential decree.
For his part, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said
last month that he would not approve the decision to
hang former defense minister Sultan Hashim, because
he has reservation regarding executing Iraqi army
officers.
The presidential council in Iraq is composed of the
president and his two deputies and the execution
approval needs at least two in-favor votes out of
the three.
Regarding the recent media reports that former
defense minister had cooperated with U.S. secret
service and some Iraqi politicians to topple the
former regime, the judge said this will not affect
the implementation of the execution. "Even Hashim
himself did not present anything within this
context," Hadad highlighted.
"The court find itself forced to implement the
judgment after the completion of all legal
procedures," he said.
"The death sentence will be implemented a few days
after Eid al-Fitr to avoid polemics that flared up
after the execution of former President Saddam
Hussin, who was hanged in the first day of the last
Greater Bairam.
The Iraqi court condemned five of the six defendants
in the Anfal case and acquitted only one.
Death sentences
were handed down against Ali Hassan al-Majid,
otherwise known as Chemical Ali, the cousin of
former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein; Sultan Hashim
Ahmed, the former minister of defense, and Hussein
Rashid al-Tikriti, assistant chief of staff of the
former Iraqi army, having been found guilty of
committing crimes against humanity.
Saber Abdul-Aziz al-Dori, director of the former
military intelligence, and Farhan Motlak al-Juburi,
the chief of the former intelligence in the northern
zone, received life sentences, while former Mosul
Governor Taher Tawfiq al-Aani was acquitted.
Anfal was an anti-Kurdish campaign led by the former
regime between 1986 and 1989 and involved a series
of military campaigns against the Kurdish Peshmerga
fighters as well as the mostly Kurdish civilian
population of southern Kurdistan (Iraqi Kurdistan).
An estimated 182,000 Kurds were killed and 4,000
villages wiped out in the brutal campaign of
bombings, mass deportation and gas attacks known as
Anfal.
VOI
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