“A Dutch businessman who sold Iraq’s former regime chemicals that were used in deadly gas attacks against Kurds in Iraq and in Iran was ordered on Wednesday to pay 400,000 euros ($520,000) in compensation to some of the victims. The court ruled that Frans van Anraat must pay 25,000 euros plus interest to each of the 16 plaintiffs in the case. Van Anraat is currently serving a 17-year prison sentence on charges of complicity to war crimes in relation to the chemicals he sold to Saddam Hussein’s regime between 1985 and 1989. The substances enabled the production of mustard gas used notably to massacre 5,000 Kurds in 1988 at Halabja, northwest Iraq.”
Related posts:
When is a coup not a coup?
The trouble with using police informants in the US
Philadelphia woman faces $600-a-day fine for feeding needy neighborhood kids
Police shoot teen skipping school assuming he was burglar
Brazilian leader asks for referendum after worst unrest in 20 years
California man is exonerated after 25 years on death row
NSA spying allegations mean U.S. could provide ‘virtually unlimited’ info on citizens to allies
The Doomsday Preppers of New York
Italy could need EU rescue within six months, warns Mediobanca privately
Ukrainian government faked journalist's death in real 'fake news' plot
Ex-Hillsboro cop surrenders after shootout with police with wife, daughter at his side
Nato commander apologises after troops shoot dead Afghan children
Uncle Sam's Long History of Child-Snatching
Honduran Man Killed Himself After Being Separated From Family at U.S. Border
Police Bullets Hit Bystanders, and Questions Rise Yet Again