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Chemical Ali's execution to be carried out
next Saturday
7.9.2007
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September 7, 2007
BAGHDAD, -- A lawyer for Ali Hasan Al-Majid
"Chemical Ali" and two other former aides of ousted
Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein said the three are to be
executed Saturday.
Majid Badee Aref Ezzat said his clients informed him
by phone that the executions were moved up, KUNA,
the Kuwait News Agency, reported Thursday.
Three of the six defendants in the Anfal case will
be executed by hanging on Saturday, a Saudi
newspaper quoted the lawyer of former Iraqi deputy
premier Tariq Aziz as saying.
"The Iraqi Criminal Court notified Ali Hassan al-Majid,
alias Chemical Ali, former defense minister Sultan
Hashim and former chief of staff Hussein Rashid al-Tikriti
that they will be executed tomorrow," lawyer Badie
Aref Ezzat told Saudi newspaper al-Watan, published
on Friday.
The lawyer said he was told by the three convicts
that they only wanted to meet their families before
the executions. |
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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An Iraqi appeals court Tuesday refused to overturn
the death sentences handed down to Majid, former
Iraqi Defense Minister Sultan Hashem Ahmed and
former Deputy Director of Operations for the Iraqi
Armed Forces Hussein Rashid Mohammed after they were
convicted of crimes against humanity for the
massacre over 182,000 Kurds using chemical weapons.
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.
Judge Mounir Haddad said the appeals court decision
was sent to the Iraqi president, who set the date
for the executions.
He said the death sentences were upheld by a
majority decision.
The three
were sentenced to death on
June 24 after being found responsible
for the slaughter of thousands of ethnic Kurds in
the Anfal campaign of 1988.
UPI
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