Saddam Hussein15 July 2005
Formal charges are filed against Saddam Hussein and other co-defendants in connection with Government atrocities committed in the al-Dujail region against the people of al-Dujail
Iraq · Warfare / Gulf War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Formal charges are filed against Saddam Hussein and other co-defendants in connection with Government atrocities committed in the al-Dujail region against the people of al-Dujail
Saddam Hussein is found guilty of crimes against humanity for the killing of 148 Shias in Tigris river city of Dujail in 1982, sentenced to death by hanging
Saddams appeal is rejected and the death sentence upheld
Nicknamed "Chemical Ali" in the region, al-Majid is part of the group of leader who are deemed responsible for the deaths of approximately 180,000 Kurds in the Iraq War, a devastation many call genocide. Ali Hassan al-Majid, cousin of and former aid to Sadaam Hussein, is executed in Iraq for his role in the poison-gas attack of the village of Halabja, where 5,000 Kurds were killed
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