Prosecutor Demands Death for “Chemical Ali”

Former Iraqi official Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as “Chemical Ali,” should be hanged for his role in the 1980s massacre of Iraqi kurds, an Iraqi prosecutor said yesterday (see GSN, March 6).

The trial of al-Majid and five other former Iraqi officials neared completion yesterday when prosecutor Munqith al-Faroon delivered his closing remarks in the crimes against humanity trial.

Al-Faroon demanded the death penalty for five of the six defendants, saying they “did not have mercy on elderly people or women or children not even animals or plants or the environment.”

Al-Majid, he said, “was the ultimate master of the genocide operations against the Kurds.”

Judge Mohammed Oreibi al-Khalifa adjourned the trial until April 16, when defense attorneys are scheduled to give their closing arguments (Bushra Juhi, Associated Press/North County Times, April 2).

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