vrijdag, december 23, 2005
Killing of Iraq Kurds 'genocide'
BBC NEWS |
"A court in The Hague has ruled that the killing of thousands of Kurds in Iraq in the 1980s was an act of genocide.
The ruling came in the case of Dutch trader Frans van Anraat, who was given a 15-year sentence for selling chemicals to Saddam Hussein's regime.
He was found guilty of complicity in war crimes over a 1988 chemical attack that killed more than 5,000 people, but acquitted of genocide charges.
It is the first trial to deal with war crimes against Kurds in Iraq and Iran."
