'Chemical Ali' Sentenced To Hang

[Rasputin]

An Iraqi court on Sunday sentenced Saddam Hussein's cousin known as "Chemical Ali" and two other former regime officials to death by hanging for their roles in a 1980s scorched-earth campaign that led to the deaths of 180,000 Kurds.

Ali Hassan al-Majid, Saddam's cousin and the former head of the Baath Party's Northern Bureau Command, earned his nickname for his use of chemical weapons against the ethnic minority during efforts to crush a rebellion in the north.

The judge, Mohammed Oreibi al-Khalifa, said al-Majid was convicted of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes for ordering army and security services to use chemical weapons in a large-scale offensive that killed or maimed thousands.

Former defense minister Sultan Hashim Ahmad al-Tai also was sent to the gallows after the judge ruled that he had ordered a large-scale attack against civilians and used chemical weapons and deportation against the Kurds.

Al-Tai, who was wearing a traditional Arab robe and a white headdress, stood in silence as the verdict was read but insisted he was innocent afterward.

"I will not say anything new, but I will leave you to God. I'm innocent," al-Tai said as a guard escorted him out of the room after the verdict.

The former deputy director of operations for the Iraqi Armed Forces, Hussein Rashid Mohammed, also was sentenced to death after he was convicted of drawing up military plans and other allegations against the Kurds.

Two other former regime officials -- Farhan Mutlaq Saleh, former head of military intelligence's eastern regional office, and former director of military intelligence under Saddam Hussein, Sabir al-Douri, were sentenced to life in prison.

The judge said the charges were dropped against Taher Tawfiq al-Ani, the former governor of Mosul and head of the Northern Affairs Committee, because of insufficient evidence. That decision had been expected as the prosecutor had requested that al-Ani be released.

According to Sunday's verdicts:


Ali Hassan al-Majid ("Chemical Ali"), ex-Baath leader in northern Iraq, was sentenced to death for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity

Sultan Hashim Ahmed, former defence minister, was sentenced to death by hanging for war crimes and crimes against humanity

Hussein Rashid al-Tikriti, ex-Republican Guard head, was sentenced to death for war crimes and crimes against humanity

Farhan al-Jibouri, ex-military commander, was sentenced to life in prison for war crimes and crimes against humanity

Saber Abdul Aziz, ex-intelligence chief, was sentenced to life in prison for war crimes and crimes against humanity

Taher Muhammad al-Ani, ex-governor of Nineveh province was cleared of war crimes and crimes against humanity for lack of evidence
Majid stood in silence as his death sentence was pronounced. Others shouted they were innocent on hearing their verdicts.

It was not clear if any of the defendants planned to appeal.

[donsaeid]

laanate khoda bar in adame bihamechiz! inshallah tamame akherat ro dar ataashe jahanam misoze va enteghame hameye onai ke koshte azash gerefte mishe!

mardikeye kasif!

[Rasputin]

'علی شیمایی' به اعدام محکوم شد


علی شیمیایی فرمانده عملیات انفال و پسرعموی صدام حسین رهبر سابق عراق به اعدام محکوم شد
دادگاهی رسیدگی کننده به پرونده موسوم به انفال در عراق، علی حسن المجید، معروف به علی شیمیایی پسر عموی صدام حسین را به اعدام محکوم کرد.
آقای مجید، در دادگاه رسیدگی به "نسل کشی کردها" در سال 1988 میلادی، مجرم شناخته شد و به اعدام با چوبه دار محکوم شد.

دادستانها می گویند حدود صد و هشتاد هزار شهروند غیرنظامی کرد عراق، در جریان عملیات انفال در سال 1988 کشته شدند.

به همراه آقای حسن المجید، پنج تن دیگر نیز به اتهام مشارکت در نسل کشی کردها، محاکمه شدند.

دو تن از این افراد به اعدام و دو تن به حبس ابد محکوم شدند، در حالی که متهم ششم پرونده، به دلیل فقدان مدارک لازم، تبرئه شد.

احکام دادگاه

دادگاه رسیدگی کننده به پرونده کشتار انفال، حکم متهمان دیگر را اینگونه اعلام کرد:


علی حسن المجید (معروف به علی شیمیایی)، رهبر سابق حزب بعث در شمال عراق، به اتهام نسل کشی، ارتکاب جنایات جنگی و جنایت علیه بشریت، محکوم به اعدام با چوبه دار.


صدام حسین هم که در ماه دسامبر گذشته اعدام شد، از متهمان پرونده انفال بود

سلطان هاشم احمد، وزیر سابق دفاع عراق، به جرم جنایات جنگی و ارتکاب جنایت علیه بشریت، محکوم به اعدام با چوبه دار.


حسین رشید التکریتی، فرمانده سابق گارد جمهوری عراق، به جرم ارتکاب جنایات جنگی و جنایات علیه بشریت، محکوم به اعدام.


علی فرحان صالح، فرمانده سابق نظامی عراق، به جرم ارتکاب جنایات جنگی و جنایت علیه بشریت، محکوم به حبس ابد.


صابر عبدالعزیز مسئول سابق اداره استخبارات (اطلاعات) نظامی عراق، به جرم ارتکاب جنایات جنگی و جنایت علیه بشریت، محکوم به حبس ابد.


طاهر توفیق الآنی، فرماندار سابق استان نینوا، به علت شواهد مدارک کافی، تبرئه.

صدام حسین رهبر سابق عراق نیز که در ماه دسامبر سال گذشته اعدام شد، از متهمان پرونده انفال بود.

این پرونده به عملیات انفال ارتباط دارد که در سال های 1988 تا 1989 و در جريان جنگ ايران و عراق به دست ارتش عراق در مناطق کردنشين اين کشور به اجرا گذاشته شد.

در اين عمليات، که فرماندهی آن را ژنرال علی حسن المجید بر عهده داشت، اسلحه شیمیایی نیز به کار گرفته شد و بخش دیگر آن نیز بازداشت دستجمعی ساکنان کرد اين مناطق و کوچ اجباری هزاران تن از آنان بوده است.

بعد از اعدام صدام حسین رهبر سابق عراق در دسامبر 2006 به اتهام قتل بیش از 148 شیعه در شهر دجیل، علی حسن المجید شخص اصلی این پرونده است.

علی حسن المجید که پسر عموی صدام حسین است به دلیل استفاده از گازهای سمی در حمله علیه کردها به علی شیمیایی معروف شده و در صورت اثبات اتهامش که نسل کشی است به عدام محکوم می شود.

[donsaeid]

soltan hashem ahmad edam beshe rohe kheili az shahidaye jange tahmili aramesh peyda mikone! heyf ali farhan saleh edam nashod!

[Rasputin]

soltan hashem ahmad edam beshe rohe kheili az shahidaye jange tahmili aramesh peyda mikone! heyf ali farhan saleh edam nashod!

Hadaf ineh keh inha 'mahkum' beshan ! Hamash [e'edam] kardan nist ! Inha adam kosh haei boudan keh Saddam rouy-e anha kheili hesab mikard va intori hokumat kard !

Har kasi kar-e badi bekoneh,belakhareh yek rouzi javabesh ro migireh !

[donsaeid]

for my case hameye bisharafaro bejaye dar zadan roye chobe kolofte tiz beneshonan behtare!

[Rasputin]

An Iraqi special tribunal yesterday sentenced Saddam Hussein’s cousin, known as ”Chemical Ali” to death for the destruction of thousands of Kurdish villages and the murder of tens of thousands of their inhabitants during the 1988 ”Anfal campaign”.

What was Anfal about??

The al-Anfal Campaign (Kurdish: Sallawî Enfal) was an anti-Kurdish campaign led by the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein between 1986 and 1989 (during and just after the Iran-Iraq war). The campaign takes its name from Surat Al-Anfal in the Qur'an, which was used as a code name by the former Iraqi Baathist regime for a series of military campaigns against the peshmerga rebels as well as the mostly Kurdish civilian population of southern Kurdistan. Kurds have always referred to these attacks as the genocide. In December 2005 a court in The Hague ruled that the killing of thousands of Kurds in Iraq in the 1980s was an act of genocide.

This was another occasion when the entire Islamic worlds looked the other way like in the case of atrocities in today’s Darfur. Islamic despotic rulers rarely ever mind if perpetrator of crime against another Muslim is one of their own. Chemical Ali and Saddam were one of their own. The life of fellow Muslims loses all significance if a strong man who has raised a slogan against infidels can go on rampage and eliminate dissent in any which way he can. The jihad against infidel undertaken than by Saddam was far more important than lives of thousand of peshmergas. The jihad by the way than was against Shiite orthodoxy, it was a destructive self proclaimed war against Iran, where the two countries tried to eradicate each other with a ferocity that would put even worst of tyrannies to shame. The western powers remained silent as they saw Saddam as an enormous tool and effective balance against the Shiite increasing orthodoxy.

In March 1987, Saddam Hussein's cousin from his hometown of Tikrit, Ali Hassan al-Majid, was appointed secretary-general of the Ba'ath Party's Northern Region, which included Iraqi Kurdistan. Under al-Majid, who 'even by the standards of the Ba'ath security apparatus ... had a particular reputation for brutality,' control of policies against the Kurdish insurgents passed from the Iraqi Army to the Ba'ath Party itself.

On June 20, 1987, directive SF/4008 was issued under al-Majid's signature. Of greatest significance is clause 5. Referring to those areas designated 'prohibited zones,' al-Majid ordered that 'all persons captured in those villages shall be detained and interrogated by the security services and those between the ages of 15 and 70 shall be executed after any useful information has been obtained from them, of which we should be duly notified.' However, it seems clear from the application of this policy that this referred only to males 'between the ages of 15 and 70.' HRW/ME takes this as given, writing that clause 5's 'order [was] to kill all adult males,' and later: 'Under the terms of al-Majid's June 1987 directives, death was the automatic penalty for any male of an age to bear arms who was found in an Anfal area.' (Iraq's Crime of Genocide, pp. 11, 14.) A subsequent directive on September 6, 1987, supports this conclusion: it calls for 'the deportation of ... families to the areas where there saboteur relatives are ..., except for the male [members], between the ages of 12 inclusive and 50 inclusive, who must be detained.' (Cited in Iraq's Crime of Genocide, p. 298.)This was the prelude to the intended 'final solution' to the Kurdish problem undertaken within months of al-Majid's arrival in his post. It would be known as 'al-Anfal' ('The Spoils'), in a reference to the eighth sura of the Qur'an. Anfal was overseen by Ali Hassan al-Majeed in his capacity as the ruling Baath party’s northern head. Iraqi Kurds say that as many as 180,000 of their compatriots died during this and other campaigns in the late 1980s.




In the Anfal campaign the descendents of Saladin Ayubi the great chivalrous warrior faced the final solution. Saddam use to ride a white stallion and presented himself as the great chivalrous leader of Islam in the footsteps of Saladin, little did the Islamic knew that he designed the final solution for the descendents of this warrior. Not single voice of condemnation ever appeared as this genocide went on in the name of a Quranic Surrah titled as ‘The Spoils.’ The conscience of the world slept as did the conscience of the 1.2 billion faithful, on this great day when perpetrators of this crime faces the ultimate capital sentence it is nice to see justice being served to criminals who seemingly escaped it than.

In its book Iraq's Crime of Genocide (ISBN 0-300-06427-6), HRW/ME writes: '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.





'Arabization,' another major element of Al-Anfal, was a tactic used by Hussein's regime to drive Kurdish families out of their homes in cities like ***kuk, which are in the valuable oil field areas. The campaign utilized heavy population redistribution, most notably in ***kuk, the results of which now plague negotiations between Iraq's Shi'a United Iraqi Alliance and Kurdish Democratic Alliance. Hussein's Ba'athist regime built several public housing facilities in ***kuk as part of his 'Arabization,' shifting poor Arabs from Iraq's southern regions to ***kuk with the lure of inexpensive housing.

Iraq's Kurds now strongly resent Arabs still residing in Ba'ath-era ***kuk housing, and view them as a barrier to ***kuk's recognition as a Kurdish city (and regional seat) in an increasingly sovereign Kurdish Autonomous Region. Many Kurds believe that since Hussein's 'Arabization' was a form of ethnic cleansing, they should be allowed to 'undo' its campaign in post-Saddam Iraq, ie expelling those Arabs who came north as a result of Hussein's programs.

Former defence minister Sultan Hashim Ahmad al-Tai and Hussein Rashid Mohammed, a former deputy director of operations for the Iraqi armed forces, were also sentenced to hang at the end of the ten month trial. Saddam Hussein had been a defendant prior to his hanging in December for a campaign of collective punishment carried out against the Shia village of Dujeil.

As a part time writer I have been involved in my own little way to keep reminding the conscience of populace in my part of world on the atrocities committed by Chemical Ali. For me this day is a day when justice is served to the main perpetrator of this crime. I thank every one involved and expect that this 'act of justice' will go down in history like the lessons of Nuremberg trials, the message is clear i.e. the crimes against humanity cannot be overlooked, the perpetrators can hide, run but never escape from the long hands of justice.