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Sulaimaniyah: Kurdish center slams
releasing military advisor
8.3.2008
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March 8, 2008
Sulaimaniyah, Kurdistan region 'Iraq', --
An independent Kurdish center on Friday condemned
the decision taken by the Supreme Criminal Court to
release Lieutenant General Wafiq al-Samurai from
Anfal operations.
"The center condemns releasing al-Samurai and doubts
its neutrality," Ali Mahmou, the spokesman for
Halabja center against genocide, told VOI.
"We did not hear that the court asked any body for
evidences to convict al-Samurai in his participation
in Anfal operations or the 1991 al-Intifada al-Shaabaniya,www.ekurd.net
or the mid-Shaaban
Uprising," He added.
The Supreme Criminal Court found Lieutenant General
Wafiq al-Samurai was not involved in participating
in Anfal operations and Chief Judge Adnan al-Bederi
decided to end investigating him.
Chief Judge in the Supreme Criminal Court issued a
decision to close investigations into al-Samurai
after had not been found guilty in the participation
of Anfal case.
The decision also stipulates that the freeze imposed
on his finances and properties has to be lifted.
A Kurdish organization issued a statement accusing
al-Samurai, who was the director of the military
intelligence in the late 1980s, of participating in
Anfal operations, which claimed the lives of more
than 182,000 Kurds.
Al-Samurai is working now as a military advisor for
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani.
Halabja center, non governmental organization,www.ekurd.net
was established in 2000
to gather evidences and documents about those who
perpetrated genocide against Kurds.
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 'northern Iraq'.
The campaign, in which chemical weapons were used,
The Anfal operation crackdown that killed nearly
200,000 Kurdish civilians and guerrillas.
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