Among these Kurdish villagers, those who were designated as alien are not allowed to own property, to repair a crumbling house or to build a new one.

Thousands of Iraqis have been executed on political and religious grounds, and even more through a genocidal poison-gas war against Iraq's own Kurdish villagers.

The chemicals were used in poison gas weapons that killed Kurdish villagers.

March 7, 1991, nearly 2,000 Kurdish villagers marching in Dargecit were fired on by police.

The clashes resulted in dozens killed and wounded on both sides, with hundreds of displaced Kurdish villagers.

The raw materials were sent to Iraq before they were used in the mass attack against Kurdish villagers, the court said.

Iraqi Kurdish villagers said today that Turkish planes had bombed several remote settlements in the Metina mountains.

Ayoub goes to great lengths to collect money for the operation by smuggling truck tires with a group of Kurdish villagers near the Iran-Iraq border.

The chemicals were used in poison gas weapons in the 1980s and against Kurdish villagers.

Next time he might use chemical weapons, as he has done against Iranian soldiers and Kurdish villagers.