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Anfal: The Kurdish Genocide trial resumes
in Baghdad
10.6.2007
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The
Iraqi Supreme Criminal Court set June 24 as a date
to hand down sentences for the Anfal genocide case.
June
10, 2007
BAGHDAD, June 10, -- The Iraqi Supreme
Criminal Court set June 24 as a date to hand down
sentences for the Anfal genocide case.
"Court President Judge Mohammed Uraibi al-Khalifa
set June 24 as the final date for reading out
rulings on the defendants in the Anfal case," Judge
Munir Haddad, a member of the appellate body of the
Iraqi Supreme Criminal Court, said.
The Iraqi High Tribunal
will resume the trial of Saddam Hussein's six
ex-aides who
allegedly gassed scores of Kurds in the 1980's.
During the last session on May 10, Chief Justice
Mohammad Al-Oraibi had said that this session will
be allocated to scrutinize case documents. |
Ali Hassan al-Majid, also known as "Chemical Ali"
for allegedly ordering poison gas attacks against
the Kurds. |
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The prosecution has called for the execution of five
of the six defendants including "Chemical Ali", Ali
Hassan Al-Majeed.
Today's session is the trial's 60th session with
charges against Saddam dropped following his
execution last
December.
Hussein Rasheed Al-Tikriti, Farhan Mutlak Al-Jabouri,
Saber Al-Douri, Taher Al-Ani and Sultan Hashem are
all standing trial alongside Al-Majeed. All were top
officials when the Anfal genocide took place in 1988
following an assassination attempt.
Anfal was an anti-Kurdish campaign led by the former
regime between 1986 and 1989 involving a series of
military campaigns against the Kurdish peshmerga
rebels as well as the mostly Kurdish civilian
population of southern Kurdistan.
Independent sources estimate 50,000 to more than
100,000 deaths occurred in the campaign, in which
chemical weapons were used, while the Kurds claim
about 182,000 people were killed.
Charges against the prime defendant Saddam Hussein
were dropped after his execution on December 30,
2006, four days after an appellate body upheld a
death sentence handed down by a court hearing the
case of al-Dujail, a small town in northern Baghdad.
The court had found Saddam and a number of his aides
guilty of responsibility for the killing of 148
people following an assassination attempt on
Saddam's life in 1982, during the eight-year
Iraq-Iran war.
Chemical Ali is now the prime defendant in the Anfal
case after charges against Hussein were dropped
following his execution.
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