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First session of 1991 Kurdish uprising
suppression trial in September
31.8.2009
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August 31, 2009
DUHOK, Kurdistan region 'Iraq', — The first
session on the trial of former regime officials on
charges of suppressing a Kurdish uprising in 1991
will be held on September 9, a lawyer for victims’
families in Duhok revealed on Sunday.
“The first session of trial of former regime
officials, including Ali Hassan al-Majeed, will be
held on September 9, when charges will be pressed
against 27 defendants,” Haffal Wahab Rasheed told
Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
In 1991, shortly after the first Gulf War, the
Kurdish people in Erbil, Sulaimaniyah and Duhok
staged an uprising against the former regime,www.ekurd.net
coinciding with another
one in the south, but the government forces of
former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein brutally
suppressed them and wielded control over these
areas.
“The trial will revolve on the suppression of al-Intifada
al-Shaabaniya (the Shaaban uprising) in the south
and the Azar uprising by the Kurdish people in the
north,” Rasheed said.
He added that so far he has received 6,000
complaints from citizens in Duhok over their loss of
relatives in the uprising or over their financial
losses, funds confiscation or house demolitions.
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