Maliki insists on the implementation of the death penalty in the cause of the convicted Anfal11112007
11/11/2007
 
The Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki Sunday 11-11-2007 that the government insisting on the need to apply the law and the implementation of the death sentence against convicted by the officials of the former regime in the Anfal campaign against the Kurds, as stipulated by the Constitution. Al-Maliki said in a press conference "we insist on the need to apply the law, and recognizes all these (convicted) to justice in accordance with the court's judgment, did not give up on the receipt and execution of the sentence as stated in the law, that we were keen to law."

The Moscowbiaya convicted in the "Anfal" in American prisons. The case related to the commission of the former Iraqi regime led by Saddam Hussein for genocide and crimes against humanity against the Kurds in the Kurdistan region of Iraq.

Maliki added that "the law emphasizes the execution after month, has over the month and must execution," stressing that "the law does not give the Presidency or the presidency of the Chamber of Deputies or
Government (right) cancellation or postponement of implementation. "

Ratified Iraq Supreme Criminal Court last September on the death sentence by hanging on both Ali Hassan al-Majid, nicknamed "Chemical to" a cousin of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein late and former Defense Minister Sultan Hashim Ahmed and Deputy Commander of the former Iraqi army Hussein Rashid Mohammed.

The three men convicted in the Anfal campaign against the Kurds in northern Iraq in 1987 and 1988.

The law requires the court to carry out the award after endorsement by the discrimination and during the 30 days from the date of its issuance, with the retention of the executive branch in implementing the provisions issued during this period.

Like Majid earlier to the court in another case for his role in crushing the uprising by Shiites in southern Iraq after the Gulf War in 1991, and was sentenced to death by too.

Arab Net