Iranian War Veterans File Complaint Against Saddam
Posted on: Monday, 16 January 2006, 09:00 CST
Text of report in English by Iranian news agency IRNA website
Tehran, 16 January: Some 2,000 chemical war-disabled have lodged a complaint against Iraq's former dictator, Saddam Husayn, the Persian language daily 'Sharq' reported Monday quoting Iran's Red Crescent Society.
All chemically wounded people and war veterans who were injured during the eight-year Iraqi imposed war (1980-88) enjoy the right to file a suit against Saddam, said the head of the secretariat of Iran's Humanitarian Rights National Committee, Mohammad-Taher Kanani.
However, he urged all the chemically disabled persons and war veterans to present their complaints to the foreign ministry or Iran's embassy in Baghdad, saying the request is because of the security condition ruled by the court trying Saddam.
The official stressed that all the martyrs' families and those who have sustained damages when their houses bombarded during the war could also lodge complaint against Saddam.
Earlier, an Iranian official underlined condemnation of those who were involved in providing Iraqi Bath regime with chemical substances by an international court marks a step towards defending the rights of Iranian chemically wounded people at international level.
The director of the Public Relations and International Affairs Department at the Society to Support Victims of Chemical Weapons, Shahriar Khateri, told IRNA last December that Dutch merchant Frans Van Anraat tried on charges of complicity in chemical attack on Halabja, a Kurdish region northern Iraq, has been sentenced to a long prison term following testimony given by a number of chemically wounded Iranians dispatched to the Hague.
Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is being investigated on charges of crimes committed against humanity and genocide during his presidency as well as the eight years of war against Iran.
Source: BBC Monitoring Middle East
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