Saddam Hussein is dead - an event for which I have waited 26 years.

Hurray!

He should have spent more time in court though:

The Center of Halabja against Anfalization and Genocide of the Kurds (C.H.A.K.) regards the execution of the former dictator Saddam Hussein, without the findings of the other cases, as an absolute devaluation of the interests of the Kurdish victims.

Saddam Hussein should have face justice for the crimes he committed against the Kurds, and should be sentenced for these crimes.

Saddam was executed without face justice for the cleansing of the Fayili Kurds in the 1970’s and 1980’s; the Arabization of Kurd-Arab border areas since 1968; the Arabization and cleansing of Yazidi Kurds; the bombardment of Qalladze in 1974, which killed 400 civilian Kurds; the mass killings of 8000 Barzani Kurds in 1983; the bombardment of Kurdish villages from 1983 onwards; the chemical bombardment of Kurdish villages in 1987-1988; the chemical attacks on Serdasht; the chemical attacks on Halabja in 1988, which killed 5000 people; and the Anfal genocide in 1988, which resulted in the disappearance of 182,000 Kurds and the destruction of thousands of Kurdish villages. It is extremely unfair that Saddam escaped without being prosecuted for these crimes.