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‘ ” . » FD-302a (Rev. 10-6-95) ¥ @ 315E-HQO-1448534 Continuation oF EDBGiof Ali Hasan Al-Majid “30 04/04/2004 _,Page__6 decree number 677, dated August 26, 1987. The document states, in part, "The Party organization shall carefully examine the situation of military deserters and draft dodgers who. are captured. The death sentence shall be carried out by the Party organization, after that examination, on every deserter or draft dodger who is captured if the duration of his desertion or draft evasion exceeds ‘one year or if he has committed the crime of desertion more than once. The provisions of this Decree shall apply to all persons who evaded military service prior to its date of promulgation and who do not follow up with their recruiting departments within 30 days from the date of its publication in the Official Gazette." (The copy of this document was obtained from the previously described HRW report dated February, 1994. It appears on pages 89-91 of the report.) Al-Majid acknowledged that he had "heard about" this decree, but stated he does not remember actually seeing it or the details contained within it. He denied that there was a connection between RCC decree number 10 and the national census. Al~-Majid further denied there was a connection between registering or failing to register for the census and military service. Al-Majid reiterated that an individual was not deemed a deserter or draft dodger simply because he failed to register for the census. He added that RCC decree number 10 and its order to execute deserters and draft dodgers did not come into effect because an individual ‘failed to register for the census. Al-Majid reiterated that those who failed to participate in the census lost their citizenship documents. ; , The interviewer played a portion of a copy of an audiotape of Al-Majid's voice in Arabic. The segment played is from approximately 9:55 to 16:06 of the tape. be copy of this - yz. audiotape was obtained by the interviewer from] ssf Sob United Kingdom Liaison on Transitional Justice, Office of Human’ Rights & Transitional Justice, Coalition Provisional Authority, Baghdad, Iraq. Per FBI us| __] the copy of this audiotape closely approximates the translation provided in the previously described HRW report dated July, 1993, Appendix A, The Ali Hasan Al-Majid Tapes. According to the HRW report, this recording |. documents a meeting Al-Majid held with members of the Northern Bureau and governors of the Autoriomous Region of Iraqi Kurdistan on April 15, 1988. From context, however, it appears this recording took place in 1987.) ;