City workers cleaning up the al-Ashar Canal, Basra, June 2009. Source: Wikimedia Commons. The Iraqi district of Basra, apart from being extremely oil-rich, is the country's only gateway to the sea, ...
The resulting report, Ali Hasan Al-Majid and the Basra Massacre of 1999, provides evidence that one Iraqi official responsible for the gross human rights violations in that campaign is Ali Hasan ...