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Case Western Reserve University School of Law

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Criminal Law

2006

Crimes agains the Shiites and Kurds--Iraqi High Tribunal

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After The 1991 Gulf War Ended, The Shiite Population In Southern Iraq And The Kurdish Population In Northern Iraq Revolted Against The Iraqi Government... : Deliberate Attacks, Imams From These Mosques Were Providing Medical Treatment And Shelter To Injured Civilians And Insurgents..., Emily J. Peters Jan 2006

After The 1991 Gulf War Ended, The Shiite Population In Southern Iraq And The Kurdish Population In Northern Iraq Revolted Against The Iraqi Government... : Deliberate Attacks, Imams From These Mosques Were Providing Medical Treatment And Shelter To Injured Civilians And Insurgents..., Emily J. Peters

War Crimes Memoranda

. 3) Iraqi troops entered hospitals in Basrah and Karbala and summarily murdered any males between the age of 12 and 70. Iraqi troops also murdered, tortured, and raped medical personnel who had provided treatment to insurgents. 4) Ali Hassan Al Majid rounded up male civilians (of fighting age) and ordered them to drink petrol. After these men drank the petrol, Al Majid ordered his troops to fire or personally fired himself tracer bullets into the victims so that the petrol would ignite and the victim would explode. This tactic was used to intimidate people into offering information about insurgent …