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🇮🇶#Iraq: Hajaj Ahmed Hardan al-Tikriti, widely known among survivors as "Saddam Hussein’s personal butcher" was brought before the Rusafa Criminal Court in Baghdad over crimes linked to the Anfal genocide against the Kurds. A former warden at the notorious Nugra Salman prison in Iraq’s southern Muthanna province, he is accused of overseeing torture and carrying out executions, forced disappearances, starvation, and the abuse of thousands of Kurdish detainees during the late 1980s. Since his arrest on July of last year, after decades in hiding, al-Tikriti has appeared multiple times before the Rusafa Court in connection with atrocities committed at Nugra Salman prison. Around 221 relatives of Anfal victims from several Kurdish regions attended the court session wearing traditional Kurdish clothing, demanding justice for the massacres and crimes committed against the Kurdish population. Attached footage shows Hajaj in handcuffs next to the Nugra Salman Prison. (via Rudaw & @kurdishactivism_ on IG)