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BAGHDAD — Iraq’s government Tuesday called on the presidential council to ratify the death sentences against former officials from Saddam Hussein’s regime so that the punishments can be carried out.
“Chemical Ali” Hassan al-Majid, who gained his nickname for his role in a chemical attack on the Kurdish city of Halabja, was sentenced to hang in June 2007, along with former defense minister Sultan Hashim al-Taie and Hussein Rashid Mohammed, former deputy director of operations for the Iraqi armed forces, for their part in a 1987-88 crackdown on the Kurdish region that killed nearly 200,000 civilians and guerrillas.
