AMSTERDAM (The Guardian) Nov. 22 -- The first EU citizen to face charges of complicity in genocide and international war crimes went on trial in the Netherlands accused of aiding Saddam Hussein to gas the Kurds of Halabja almost 20 years ago.

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Iraqi Kurds, holding photos of victims of poison gas
attacks by Iraqi government in 1988 in the town of Halabja,
demonstrate in front of Rotterdam court during a hearing of
Dutch businessman Van Anraat, 18 March 2005.  
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Frans van Anraat, a 63-year-old Dutch businessman who fled to Saddam Hussein's Iraq and lived there from 1989 to 2003, faces charges of supplying the Saddam regime with the ingredients for the chemical weapons used in the gassing in Halabja in the 1980s.  

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Dutchman Van Anraat On Trial for Halabja Genocide  ≈

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LEAVE Iraq to the Iraqis

"Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason."