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Kurdish poisonous gas victims sue businessman
of poisonous gas attacks on the Kurds in northern Iraq have demanded compensation from businessman Frans van ... - Wikipedia Commons/Sayeed Janbozorgi (Frans van Anraat, Iraqi Kurds, poisonous gas attacks ... materials to Saddam Hussein's regime to make mustard gas in the 1980s. Sixteen victims are now claiming ...
Iraq executes Chemical Ali
ago for the poison gas attack on the Iraqi Kurdish town of Halabja in 1988. At least 5,000 people ... 'ite revolt in the wake of the 1991 Gulf War. Photograph: Victims of the Halabja poison gas attack ... Halabja-museum EPA.jpg (1988 poison gas attack in Halabja, 1991 Gulf War ...
Kurdish victims demand compensation
halabja.jpg Sixteen victims of Saddam Hussein’s poison gas attacks ... for mustard gas between 1984 and 1988. The Iraqi regime used the poison gas against Iranians and also against ... of thiodiglycol, an industrial material which can be used to produce mustard gas. The judge ruled that van Anraat ...
Bhopal Disaster
. The water caused a chemical reaction that blew the tank into the air and spread a cloud of poisonous gas ... 60 metric tonnes, far in excess of safety laws, of methyl isocyanate gas (MIC) stored in the factory ... than half a million people who were exposed to the toxic gas survived, but around 100,000 of them ...
Bhopal disaster commemorated
poison gas leaked from a factory owned by US company Union Carbide in 1984. The factory made pesticides ... bhopal.jpg The 25th anniversary of the massive gas leak in Bhopal has ...
Saddam Hussein's henchman 'Chemical Ali' hanged
earned his moniker for ordering poisonous gas attacks in a brutal scorched-earth campaign of bombings ... -quarters of the victims at Halabja were women and children, in what is thought to be the deadliest ever gas attack carried out against civilians. The conviction for the gas attack that came as the Iran-Iraq war drew ...
Dutch Supreme Court upholds Van Anraat judgement
[...] the chemicals he was delivering were being used for mustard gas”, and “knew that the poison gas would be used ... to produce mustard gas. The Supreme Court of the Netherlands has confirmed the conviction of Dutch ... .5 years. In the 1980s, Frans van Anraat sold components of mustard gas to Saddam Hussein's regime ...
Netherlands prosecutes two businessmen
were used to produce poison gas, to Saddam Hussein\'s regime. On 18 March, in the presence of some of the survivors of the chemical gas attack against the Kurdish Iraqi town of Halabja, the Dutch public prosecutor ... that his materials were going to be used for poison gas attacks,» said prosecutor Fred Teeuwen. Van Anraat ...
Iraq's "Chemical Ali" gets 4th death sentence
for a 1988 gas attack that killed about 5,000 Kurds. Majid, a cousin of Saddam's who earned his nickname because of his use of poison gas, was convicted of crimes against humanity for an attack ...
Hussein's henchmen get seven years for expelling Kurds
campaign, when Iraqi forces strafed villages with poison gas, the source of his grim nickname. He ...
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