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¥ s @ ne @ | ' roy -FD-302a Rey. 10-6-95) - | 315E-HO-1448534 * Céutifiiation of FD-302 of ~ Ali Hasan Al-Najid ,0n 04/04/2004 _,Page ‘ Al-Majid's directive regarding the confiscation and “Liquidation of property and money was issued to the chairmen of the security committees of each province in Northern Iraq. The liquidation of property was accomplished through auctions. Al-Majid emphasized that money and property were taken only from saboteurs who had been proven to have participated in sabotage activities against the Iraqi government. Al-Majid noted the confiscation was not limited solely to Kurds, but also applied Yezidis and Arabs as well. Al-Majid was shown and read a portion of a copy of a document written in Arabic, described as letter number 1/2713 of the Northern Bureau Command, dated April 10, 1987, issued by Radhi Hassan Salman, Deputy Secretary General of the Northern Bureau Command. This letter was distributed to all the Directorates and the Security of Chamchamal via.a cover letter signed by the Deputy Director of the Security Directorate of Suleimaniyeh Governate.. The document states, in part, "His Excellency has ordered that [legal] cases of people from the villages prohibited for security reasons, or cases of the saboteurs, regardless of their nature, not | be heard and to freeze the cases that have already been heard." (The copy of this document was obtained from the HRW report titled. "Bureaucracy of Repression: The Iraqi Government in Its Own ‘Words," dated February, 1994. It appears on pages 35-36 of the report.) Al-Majid stated, "I do not remember this." He added that all Northern Bureau Command orders,were issued by him and not by ; his deputy. Al-Majid acknowledged that Salman was the Deputy Secretary General of the Northern Bureau Command. He asserted that he would not have tasked Salman with issuing such an order and that. Salman did not issue it in Al-Majid's absence. He stated that all [legal] cases are matters for courts of law and are not matters for the security committees. Al-Majid. acknowledged that he did issue similar instructions to the courts in approximately Juné, 1987. Heé directed the courts not to hear cases and/or to postpone cases , regarding individuals from the prohibited zones. In these zones, villages were cleared of people, their residences were demolished, and the residents were relocated to government housing complexes. | Al-Majid reiterated that such an order would have been issued only by him and would have been logically directed to thé courts and not to the security committees. He added that the security services were not in charge of the courts. When questioned about the authenticity of the document and whether he thought it was a forgery, Al-Majid stated, "I do not know. Maybe.".