Chemical Dealer to Be Charged in Massacre
From Times Wire Reports
Prosecutors said they would charge a Dutch chemicals dealer as an accomplice to genocide for supplying former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein with lethal chemicals used in a 1988 attack that killed about 5,000 people in the Kurdish town of Halabja.
Prosecutors said Frans van Anraat, 62, had been a suspect since 1989.
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