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Iraq mulls hanging 'Chemical Ali' in
Kurdistan region
13.7.2007
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July 13, 2007
BAGHDAD, -- Iraq is considering hanging
"Chemical Ali" in its northern Kurdistan autonomous
region if an appeal court confirms his death
sentence for the slaughter of ethnic Kurds, a
government official said Thursday.
"Thousands of our Kurdish people have requested that
Chemical Ali be hanged in Kurdistan," said Bassim
Ridha, an advisor to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.
"The government is considering these requests.
However his sentence is still to be certified by the
appeals court," he told AFP.
Ali Hassan al-Majid is a cousin of executed dictator
Saddam Hussein and is widely known as "Chemical Ali"
because of his use of poison gas against Kurdish
communities during a 1988 campaign against
separatists.
He was sentenced to death by hanging for genocide,
war crimes and crimes against humanity, on June 24
by an Iraqi court. Two other aides of Saddam were
also sentenced to death along with Majid. |
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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A nine-member appeals
panel is currently reviewing their sentences and is
expected to make it ruling in the near future.
If the appeals chamber certifies the court's
sentences, the three will be hanged within 30 days
as per Iraqi law.
Kurds in northern Iraq rejoiced over the verdict,
and many of them demanded that Majid be brought
north for execution.
The brutal Anfal campaign of 1988 saw bombings, mass
deportation and gas attacks in which an estimated
182,000 Kurds were killed and 4,000 villages wiped
out.
AFP
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