For chemical Ali what goes around comes around to haunt, the master of Anfal campaign saw rep of ex- victims installed as new President-one wonders why nobody condemned Saddam for 5,000 dead in a single day in the chemical attack on Halebja, or Assad, or 30,000 killed in Hama?
dailytimes.com.pk
The former dictator's cousin Ali Hasan Majid, better known as "Chemical Ali", was also made to watch proceedings, according to officials at the human rights ministry.
Majid infamously led the brutal Anfal campaigns against the Kurds in 1988, gassing to death 5,000 people with chemical weapons at Halabja.
Paying tribute to "the martyrs of Kurdistan and the southern marshes," a reference to Shias killed during a joint uprising against Saddam in 1991, Mr Talabani promised to establish a government committed to democracy and human rights. |
