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Ali Hassan al-Majid
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Ali Hassan al-Majid at an investigative hearing in 2004
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Born
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(
1941-11-30
)
30 November 1941
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Died
| 25 January 2010 (aged 68)
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Cause of death
| Executed by hanging
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Known for
| Iraqi
Defense Minister
,
Interior Minister
, military commander and chief of the
Iraqi Intelligence Service
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Relatives
| Saddam Hussein
(first cousin, deceased)
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Ali Hassan Abd al-Majid al-Tikritieh
(
Arabic
:
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?Al? ?asan ?Abd al-Maj?d al-Tikr?t?
, 30 November 1941 ? 25 January 2010) was an
Iraqi
minister
. He was a member of the
Baath Party
. During his life, he was
Defense Minister
,
Interior Minister
, military commander and chief of the
Iraqi Intelligence Service
. He was also the
governor
of occupied
Kuwait
during the
Gulf War
.
He was a first cousin to the late
President of Iraq
Saddam Hussein
. During the 1980s and 1990s, he became notorious for his role in the Iraqi government's campaigns against internal opposition forces, namely the ethnic
Kurdish
rebels
of the north, and the
Shia
religious dissidents of the south. Repressive measures included deportations of the population and mass killings; al-Majid was dubbed "
Chemical Ali
" by Iraqi Kurds for his use of
chemical weapons
in attacks against them.
[1]
Al-Majid was captured after the
2003 invasion of Iraq
and was charged with
war crimes
,
crimes against humanity
and
genocide
. He was convicted in June 2007 and was
sentenced to death
for crimes committed in the
al-Anfal campaign
of the 1980s. His appeal against the death sentence was rejected on 4 September 2007, and was sentenced to death for the fourth time on 17 January 2010. Al-Majid was executed by hanging eight days later.
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