Shi'ite Leader Calls For Swift Execution Of Hussein Codefendants
SCIRI leader Abd al-Aziz al-Hakim (file photo) (epa)
Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) leader Abd al-Aziz al-Hakim also urged authorities to expedite the execution of two former Hussein-era officials who were sentenced to death together with Hussein in November.
Former chief judge Awad al-Bandar and Hussein's half-brother, former intelligence chief Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, have been convicted of crimes against humanity in the killings of 148 Shi'a in the 1980s.
Al-Hakim also said his community was the victim of "sectarian genocide" under Hussein.
(Reuters, AP, dpa)
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