Halabja and Beyond

…“[Frans van Anraat’s] deliveries facilitated the attacks and constitute a very serious war crime. He cannot counter with the argument that this would have happened even without his contribution.”

“The fact that he wanted to resume exports of thiodiglycol almost immediately after he had seen footage of the gas attacks on Halabja and told a colleague around July 1988 to tell no one he was in Baghdad shows he did not regret or repent his acts.”

Judge Roel van Rossum.

Wendel Broere, “Dutchman jailed over Iraq poison gas,” Reuters, 12/23/05.