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Anfal case: The death sentences not likely
not be carried out in Ramadan
17.9.2007
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September 17, 2007
BAGHDAD, -- The three death sentences in the
Anfal case have been referred to Iraq's Federal
Court for consideration, Prosecutor General Jaafar
al-Mousawi from the Supreme Criminal Court said on
Sunday,while a spokesman for the Supreme Criminal
Court ruled out that the sentences will be carried
out during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
"No time has been set thus far for carrying out the
sentences," al-Mousawi said.
The Federal Court will decide whether a presidential
decree is required to carry out the sentences, al-Mousawi
noted.
Meanwhile, a spokesman for the Supreme Criminal
Court, Munir Haddad, said the sentences are not
likely to be executed during Ramadan or the lesser
Bairam as a token of respect for Muslims' feelings.
The Iraqi court condemned five of the six defendants
in the Anfal case and acquitted only one. |
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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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.
The death sentences sparked heated controversy in
Iraqi circles after Sunni Vice President Tariq 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 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.
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.
VOI
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