‘Ali Hassan al-Majid, Sultan Hashim Ahmad al-Ta’i and Hussain Rashid al-Tikiti, all senior officials under the government of Saddam Hussain, were sentenced to death on 24 June, for their roles in the so-called Anfal campaign of 1988 which led to the deaths of some 180,000 Iraqi Kurds. If their death sentences are upheld on appeal, they will be executed within 30 days.
