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US: Iraqi trial panel visits Vanderbilt,
local Kurdish community
30.1.2008
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January 30, 2008
Nashville, Tennessee, -- The visit to
Vanderbilt this week by the Iraqi judges who
presided over the Anfal genocide proceedings is of
particular interest to the Kurdish community here.
Many survivors of Anfal live in the Nashville area.
The Iraqi dignitaries will provide analysis of the
case, which led to the conviction of the infamous
Chemical Ali, on Thursday, Jan. 31, at the
Vanderbilt Law School. The panel discussion begins
at 5:30 p.m. CST in Flynn Auditorium.
The delegation plans to visit the Salahadeen Center,
a local Kurdish community center, at 6 p.m. on
Friday, Feb. 1.
Tens of thousands of Kurds were killed during the
Anfal campaign and thousands of villages were
destroyed. Saddam Hussein, former president of Iraq,
although a defendant in the Anfal proceeding,www.ekurd.net
was convicted by the
trial court in the Dujayl case and was executed
prior to the conclusion of the Anfal case. |
Michael A. Newton |
The panel was organized by Vanderbilt international
law expert Michael A. Newton, who went to Baghdad
several times to advise the judges and assisted in
drafting the Statute of the Iraqi High Tribunal.
Presenters at the panel discussion are Stephanie S.
Browne, regimes crime liaison for the U.S.
Department of State; Judge Arif Abdul Raqez Al-Shaheen,
president of the Iraqi High Tribunal, who also is
the head of the appeals chamber; lead prosecutor
Munqeth Takleef Al-Firaoon; Judge Taher Taleb Mahdi;www.ekurd.net
Mohammed Oraibi Majeed
Al-Khaleefa, the presiding judge; Judge Nazar Saad
Hashim Al-Musawi; and Judge Hewar Hama Khursheed
Al-Jaff.
The event is free and open to the public.
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www.vanderbilt.edu/news
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coeducational research university in Nashville,
Tennessee, USA. Founded
in 1873, the university is named for shipping and
rail magnate "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt
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