Iraq court to give genocide trial verdict on June 24

[Eugene]

Source: Agence France-Presse

Iraq court to give genocide trial verdict on June 24
(AFP)

10 June 2007

BAGHDAD - The Iraqi High Tribunal is to give its verdict on
June 24 in the genocide and war crimes trial of six former
aides of executed dictator Saddam Hussein, including his
cousin ‘Chemical Ali’, an official told AFP on Sunday.

‘The court met today and decided to hold the next session
on June 24 in which the verdict will be declared,’ the
official close to the court said on condition of anonymity,
adding that Sunday’s session lasted only a few minutes.

The charges -- genocide, war crimes and crimes against
humanity -- carry the death penalty and prosecutors have
demanded the maximum punishment for most of those in
the dock.

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Source: Reuters

Iraq court to rule in "Chemical Ali" case this month
10 Jun 2007 12:25:22 GMT
Source: Reuters

BAGHDAD, June 10 (Reuters) - An Iraqi court will hand down
its verdict this month in the trial of Saddam Hussein's cousin,
widely known as Chemical Ali, over the killing of tens of
thousands of Kurds in the 1988 Anfal campaign, a judge said
on Sunday.

Prosecutors have demanded the death penalty for Ali Hassan
al-Majeed, once one of the most feared men in Iraq.

He is on trial with five other former senior Baath party officials
for their roles in the 1988 Anfal (Spoils of War) campaign
against ethnic Kurds that prosecutors say killed up to 180,000
people.

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[acmavm]

1. There can only be one verdict on this issue. This was a war crime on a

par with anything the Nazis did. Unfortunately the US has now done the same thing, only in Falluja and with a form of White Phosphorus and other deadly chemicals.

Anyway, read the whole story about the Anfal campaign here...

Case Study:
The Anfal Campaign
(Iraqi Kurdistan), 1988

Summary

The anti-Kurdish "Anfal" campaign, mounted between February and September 1988 by the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein, was both genocidal and gendercidal in nature. "Battle-age" men were the primary targets of Anfal, according to Human Rights Watch/Middle East (hereafter, HRW/ME). The organization writes in its book Iraq's Crime of Genocide: "Throughout Iraqi Kurdistan, although women and children vanished in certain clearly defined areas, adult males who were captured disappeared en masse. ... It is apparent that a principal purpose of Anfal was to exterminate all adult males of military service age captured in rural Iraqi Kurdistan" (pp. 96, 170). Only a handful survived the execution squads.

The background

The Kurds are considered the world's largest nation without a state of their own. Numbering approximately 20-25 million people, their traditional territory is divided among the modern states of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria, with a small number in the states of the former Soviet Union. Just over four million of these Kurds live in Iraq, constituting about 23 percent of the population





http://www.gendercide.org/case_anfal.html