Riiko Sakkinen | A4 Drawings | Chemical Ali
Chemical Ali
11 February 2010, Cervera de los Montes
A4 (29,7 x 21,0 cm)
Water color, pencil, color pencil and felt-tip pen on paper
i The image is from a newspaper photo of Ali Hassan Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti, a Ba'athist Iraqi Defense Minister, Interior Minister, military commander and chief of the Iraqi Intelligence Service, during his execution by hanging 25th January 2010. Al Majid was know also as Chemical Ali after ordering the indiscriminate use of chemical weapons such as mustard gas, sarin, tabun and VX against Kurdish targets during the genocide of the Al-Anfal campaign.

Artist Pension Trust, London.
Tags: Irak, execution, chemical weapons
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