By Wikipedia Saddam Hussein's notorious cousin "Chemical Ali" was convicted Sunday of crimes against humanity and received his fourth death sentence, this time…
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The al-Anfal Campaign, also known as Operation Anfal or simply Anfal, was a genocidal campaign against the Kurdish population of Iraq led by the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein and headed by Ali Hassan al-Majid. The campaign takes its name from Surat al-Anfal in the Qur'an, which was used as a code name by the former Iraqi Baathist regime for a series of attacks against the peshmerga rebels and the mostly Kurdish civilian population of rural Northern Iraq, conducted between 1986 and 1989 culminating in 1988. This campaign also targeted Arameans, Shabaks (ethnically Kurds), Yazidis (Ezidis, ethnically Kurds) and Turcoman, and many villages belonging to these ethnic groups were also destroyed.
