MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Marianna Belenkaya)
for the genocide of 182,000 Kurds in Al-Anfal, where chemical weapons were used during an army operation in 1988. Other cases have not yet gone to court.These trials can still be held after the dictator's execution, but we may never know what happened during his rule.
Hussein is definitely guilty of the deaths of thousands of Iraqis and of the wars against Iran and Kuwait launched on his orders or with his silent approval. But his actions were in some cases part of a greater regional game involving other players.
For example, during the Anfal trial in late December, the court read out the orders from Nazzar Abdel Karim Feysal, then chief of the Iraqi general staff, to the commanders of the 1st and 5th corps of the Iraqi army, in which he instructed the Iraqi officers to "cooperate with Turkey in accordance with the cooperation protocol."
The details of the protocol were not made public, and the alleged cooperation of Iraq and Turkey in the genocide
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