The court in Iraq for the first time issued an arrest warrant

The court of the city of Suleimaniy in the north of Iraq for the first time issued an arrest warrant for a war criminal, the newspaper "ASh-Shark Al-Ausat" reports. Prior to this, the Americans or the Iraqis themselves were engaged in the search and detention of representatives of the former Baghdad regime, involved in war crimes themselves, reports RIA Novosti .

The Government of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, which controls the province of Suleimanius, prepared a special indictment based on the testimony.

The document will be transferred to the American administration demanding to arrest the ex-governor of this province of Sheikh Jaafar al-Barzandzhi and transfer it to local justice. Sheikh under the protection of a large group of armed relatives is now in the city of Kirkuk, which is controlled by US units.

The Suleimaniy court accuses Sheikh of crimes against the civilian population, in particular, that he gave orders for mass executions without trial and investigation, including public ones. Among the executed - four schoolchildren.