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1988 Kurdish massacre labeled genocide
9.3.2010
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Baghdad Declares 1988 Massacre a Genocide
March 9, 2010
ERBIL-Hewlęr,
Kurdistan region 'Iraq', — An Iraqi
supreme court reversed an earlier decision by
recognizing chemical weapons attacks on the Kurdish
city of Halabja in 1988 as an act of genocide.
The Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal in January said
the Halabja weapons attack was a crime against
humanity, sparking uproar from the Kurdistan
Regional Government in Iraq and advocacy groups.
Ali Hassan al-Majid, a former defense minister
nicknamed Chemical Ali, was
executed in
January for orchestrating the 1988 massacre of
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which an estimated 5,000 people were killed by Sarin
and VX gas in the Kurdish city of Halabja. It was
his third death
sentence since
U.S.-led forces overthrew the Baath government of
Saddam Hussein in 2003.
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The 1988 massacre of Kurds, in which an estimated
5,000 Kurd civilians were killed by Sarin and VX gas
in the Kurdish city of Halabja |
Majid Hamad Amin Jamil,
the minister of martyrs for the Kurdistan Regional
Government in Iraq, said Kurdish officials felt
justice was served, though they protested the
sentence of crimes against humanity for Majid.
Kawa Mahmoud, a representative for the KRG, welcomed
the court decision as a sign the Kurdish people are
getting the reconciliation they deserve.
"This decision will have a great impact on restoring
the rights of the Kurdish people and shows that
justice and recognition can be achieved step by
step," the representative said.
The former Baath Party regime of Saddam Hussein was
linked to genocide for the Anfal campaign.
sAnfal was an anti-Kurdish campaign led by the Iraqi 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 and some 3,000
Kurdish villages destroyed in a scorched-earth
response to a Kurdish uprising.
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