New Delhi: Three members of the former Iraqi regime under Saddam Hussein, including the late president’s cousin Chemical Ali, will be executed within 30 days, senior appellate Judge Munir Haddad said on Tuesday.
The appellate chamber upheld their sentences of death by hanging, which were imposed in June.
The three defendants are Hussein's first cousin, Ali Hassan al-Majeed, nicknamed Chemical Ali, military commander of the Anfal campaign Sultan Hashem Ahmed and deputy general commander of the Iraqi armed force Hussein Rashid Mohammed.
An Iraqi appeals court upheld the verdict of an earlier court, which found him guilty of killing hundreds of ethnic Kurds during the Anfal campaign in the 1988.
The three were found guilty of a variety of charges, including genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes.
Under Iraqi law, the government must carry out the executions within 30 days after the appeals process has been exhausted.
Al-Majeed earned his nickname for atrocities committed in the Anfal campaign during the 1980-88 Iraq-Iran war. In the scorched earth attacks, poisonous gas and chemicals were used against the Kurds.
Saddam Hussein was also a defendant in the Anfal trial, but was hanged late last year after being convicted in a separate trial of the 1982 killings in the Shiite town of Dujail.
The Anfal trial resumed a week after Hussein's hanging. In addition to the three defendants sentenced to death in June, two others received life sentences.
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