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Saddam lawyers claim his body was abused, appeal to UN |
| By: Israel Insider staff |
| Published: June 24, 2007 |
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Ali Hassan al-Majid, Saddam Hussein's cousin, also known as "Chemical Ali," was sentenced to death for anti-Kurdish atrocities, along with two others, by the Iraqi High Tribunal Sunday.
Al-Majid was convicted of "genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes for ordering army and security services to use chemical weapons in an offensive said to have killed some 180,000 people during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war," reported the Associated Press.
Former Defense Minister Sultan Hashim Ahmad al-Tai and Hussein Rashid Mohammed, a former deputy director of operations for the Iraqi army, were also sentenced to hang.
In Halabja, a northern Kurdish city where a 1988 chemical attack killed approximately 5,000 people, a small group gathered to rally at the city's cemetery Sunday.
"We thank God that we have lived to see our enemies being punished for all of the atrocities they have committed against our people," said Lukman Abdul-Qader, head of the Halabja Chemical Attack Victims' Society.
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