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Chemical Ali in hospital after hunger
strike
21.4.2008
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April
21, 2008
AMMAN, - Ali Hassan al-Majid, the Saddam
Hussein henchman better known as Chemical Ali who is
on death row for genocide, has been admitted to
hospital after a three-day hunger strike, lawyer
Badie Aref told AFP in Jordan on Sunday.
Majid "was taken to hospital on Saturday after his
health deteriorated as a result of the hunger
strike," said the lawyer,www.ekurd.net
who represents another
leading figure in Saddam's regime, deputy prime
minister Tariq Aziz.
"He is in a serious health situation... he went on
the strike to protest his prison conditions."
Badie did not elaborate.
Majid was
sentenced to death
for genocide last June, along with former defence
minister Sultan Hashim al-Tai and former armed
forces deputy chief of operations Hussein Rashid al-Tikriti. |
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, |
In February, Iraq's presidency
endorsed the execution
of Saddam Hussein's cousin known as "Chemical Ali,"
who was sentenced to death for his role in the 1980s
scorched-earth campaign against Kurds
The three were convicted of war crimes and crimes
against humanity for overseeing a brutal military
campaign against Kurdish civilians in 1988 known as
Anfal, or Spoils, that left 180,000 Kurds dead.
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.
Ali Hassan al-Majeed, a cousin of Saddam widely
known as "Chemical Ali" for his use of poison gas,
was sentenced to death last June for his role in the
genocide campaign.
Their executions have been delayed by legal
wranglings.
Copyright, respective author or news agency, AFP,
Agencies
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