Written question asked by David Drew (Labour) on Tuesday, 22 July 2008, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 6 October 2008. It was answered by Jim Murphy (Labour) on Monday, 6 October 2008 on behalf of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Iraq: Human Rights

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what further investigations he has undertaken or has supported into whether the Anfal campaign of Saddam Hussein in 1987-88 was a war crime; and if he will make a statement.

Answer: The UK helped fund, with international partners, the cost of sending international advisers to the Iraqi High Tribunal to provide advice to the Judiciary on international law—including human rights—in the trial of Saddam Hussein and members of his former regime. On 24 June 2007, the Iraqi High Tribunal reached its verdict on the Anfal trial and sentenced the senior figures involved in the campaign.The tribunal findings underscore the brutality Saddam Hussein's regime imposed on the Iraqi people and characterised many of the actions that had given rise to the charges as war crimes.

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