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Barzani's office denies interference in
Anfal case
9.3.2008
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March 9, 2008
Erbil-Hewler, Kurdistan region 'Iraq', --
Iraqi Kurdistan Region President Massoud Barzani did
not interfere in the work of the Iraqi Central
Criminal Court (ICCC) to clear four figures from the
Anfal case, a Kurdish official said on Saturday.
"The presidency of the region has supported
establishing a neutral and an independent legal
system in Iraq," and called for "separating the
legal, legislative and executive authorities in
accordance with the Iraqi constitution," Adel
Birwari, a spokesman for Barzani, told VOI.
The spokesman denied reports stating that Barzani
"sent a letter to Judge Muneer Haddad to lift the
names of Wafiq al-Samarrai and three other figures
from the Anfal case.
Anfal (or Spoils of War, taken from Surat al-Anfal
in the Qur'an) 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.
The campaign,www.ekurd.net
in which chemical weapons were used,
The Anfal operation crackdown that killed nearly
200,000 Kurdish civilians and guerrillas.
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