The associates of Saddam Hussein will again appear before court. This time - for political persecution

In Iraq, a new lawsuit began on the two high -ranking associates of Saddam Hussein - former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister Tarik Aziz and the “right hand” of the executed president Ali Hassan Majid . Former Iraqi leaders are accused of pursuing opponents of the regime during the reign of Saddam Hussein. Repressions, in particular, were directed against members of the Dava party founded in the middle of the last century, to which the current Prime Minister of the country Nuri Al-Malika belongs. It is reported by BBC .

During the new process, prosecutors declare the mass arrests of members of the Iraqi political parties, which were held in the period from 1981 to 2003 and affected up to 200 thousand people. According to the prosecution, many of the people arrested at that time were sent to bars or executed.

Aziz, who was responsible for the foreign policy of Iraq, tried to justify the invasion of Iraqi troops in Kuwait in 1990. In the early 2000s, he was the chief representative of Baghdad in negotiations with international inspectors involved in the search for weapons of mass destruction. In April 2003, Tarik Aziz surrendered to the Americans, and since then it has been contained in the Baghdad prison. He was already accused of execution of 40 entrepreneurs in 1992.

Ali Hassan Majid, known as chemical Ali, is the cousin of Saddam Hussein. Chemical Ali has already been sentenced to death twice. In early December 2008, he was sentenced to the highest degree of punishment for the murder of tens of thousands of Iraqi Shiites.

In June last year, the Iraqi court also sentenced him to the death penalty in the case of the operation of Iraqi troops in the 1980s in the north of the country. Then the Iraqi army killed about 182 thousand people and destroyed almost 3 thousand Kurdish villages.

During this campaign against residents of the city of Halabja, chemical weapons were used, as a result of which 5 thousand Kurds were killed, including children and women. It was for this that the cousin of Saddam Hussein, who led the operation, who led the operation , received his nickname .

Currently, the trial in this case has not yet been completed.