“The Halabja crime”...the Kurds are knocking on the doors of Western companies that supported Saddam

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[size=52]“The Halabja crime”...the Kurds are knocking on the doors of Western companies that supported Saddam, but there is no answer[/size]

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[size=45]Information / translation.[/size]
[size=45]A report by the American newspaper Tennis revealed, on Thursday, that thousands of Kurds in the city of Halabja are still waiting for compensation from German, French and Dutch companies that supported Saddam's regime in the manufacture of chemical weapons and use them against civilians despite the passage of more than three decades of the crime.[/size]
[size=45]The report, which was translated by the Information Agency, stated that "4811 families of Halabja residents are currently suing French, German and Dutch chemical companies that sold raw materials to Saddam's regime and other figures in his government," noting that "between the years 1987 until 1988, during the end of the Iraqi war The Iranian regime of Saddam destroyed about 2,000 villages and killed between 50,000 and 100,000 Kurds, according to Human Rights Watch reports.[/size]
[size=45]He added, "Although Saddam and Chemical Ali were convicted and hanged of crimes against humanity, the Kurdish residents of those destroyed villages did not receive adequate medical care or compensation, while the survivors of the Halabja attack have so far suffered from persistent vision problems, difficulty breathing, infertility and disfigurements. congenital, and so on.[/size]
[size=45]And he indicated that “the American (Mmlo) Law Firm, based in Chicago, is currently suing on behalf of the affected seven European companies and key employees in the hope of obtaining compensation and a medical facility, and the lawsuit alleges that the companies and their managers knowingly conspired with Saddam Hussein’s regime to build chemical weapons factories and provide Other technical expertise allowed the regime to use weapons against civilians.”[/size]
[size=45]“These companies have escaped convictions for participating in murders without consequences,” said the director of the law firm, Gabriel Myron, and that they must pay the price for their complicity in the crime with a regime that has killed tens of thousands of its citizens.[/size]
[size=45]And the report indicated that “an Iraqi court cannot compel a foreign company to pay compensation. So, even if the case is won in the city in which the trial is taking place and monetary damages are awarded, the case will have to be sent back to each of the countries of the accused companies.”[/size]
[size=45]He pointed out that “among the accused companies are the TUII AGI companies, the German Water Engring Company, the Karl Kopp Company from France, the Dutch companies Group Protech and De Direction, and the LG General Mediterranean Holding Company in Luxembourg. The lawsuit also includes the names of individuals in these companies and a Dutch businessman who was He lives in Baghdad and is a member of Saddam's government." finished/ 25 z[/size]
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