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Who?

Ali Hassan al-Majid, 68, better known in the West as 'Chemical Ali'. He had served as a general and as defence minister in Iraq from 1991 to 1995. He was also a regional party leader.

What?

Majid was executed about a week after he received his fourth death sentence since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003. He was one of the last high-profile members of Hussein's former regime still on trial in Iraq, and was executed for persecuting Iraq's Kurdish minority.

When?

In 1988, as the Iran-Iraq war was winding down, Majid commanded a scorched-earth campaign known as Anfal to wipe out a Kurdish rebellion. An estimated 100,000 people - most of them civilians - were killed over less than a year.

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