Barzan Ibrahim at-Tikriti

Barzan Ibrahim at-Tikriti ( Arabic برزان إبراهيم التكريتي, DMG Barzān Ibrāhīm at-Tikrītī , also Barzan Ibrahim al-Hasan al-Tikriti or Barasan Ibrahem Alhassen ; * February 17, 1951 in Tikrit ; † January 15, 2007 in al-Kazimiyya near Baghdad ) was an Iraqi politician and one of Saddam Hussein's three half-brothers .

Barzan Ibrahim at-Tikriti took part in the 1968 coup of the Ba'ath Party in Iraq, in which Saddam Hussein was also involved. He became a senior officer and from 1982 to 1983 director of the Iraqi security service ( Muchabarat ). He was responsible for the suppression and murder of political opponents and members of ethnic minorities. After tensions with Saddam, he became the representative of Iraq to the United Nations in Geneva in 1988 . He held this office until 1998. After the fall of Baghdad in the Iraq war , he was caught by US troops on April 17, 2003. As part of the trial of Saddam Hussein , the criminal proceedings against him and his half-brother began on October 29, 2005, both of whom were charged with committing mass murder and torture, as well as having personally committed human rights violations. On November 5, 2006, he was sentenced to death by hanging along with Saddam and former judge Awad al-Bandar for participating in the Dujail massacre . The death sentence was carried out on January 15, 2007. Awad al-Bandar died with him at the same time. Too long a fall path was chosen for the execution , so that Barzan at-Tikriti not only had his neck broken, but his head was also severed.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Baghdad: Saddam hanged at dawn. Spiegel Online . December 30, 2006, accessed June 7, 2016.
2. ↑ Iraq: Saddam's co-defendants executed. Mirror online. January 15, 2007, accessed June 7, 2016.
3. ↑ Saddam Hussein's top aides hanged. BBC World Service . January 15, 2007, accessed June 7, 2016.