Complaints against chemical weapons manufacturers in The Hague

In The Hague, the Netherlands, a trial was held on the complaint of five disabled chemical attacks from the time of sacred defense against companies that produced poisonous substances for the Baathist regime in Iraq.

On June 28, 1987, Iraqi Baathist regime planes fired chemical bombs at four crowded locations in the defenseless and oppressed city of Sardasht, 160 kilometers south of Urmia, the capital of West Azerbaijan Province, in northwestern Iran.

As a result of this cowardly attack, 119 civilians of the city were martyred, more than 8 thousand people were exposed to poisonous gases and received chemical injuries.Many survivors still suffer from the effects of inhaling the poisonous gases used in this bombardment.

In The Hague, the Netherlands, a trial was held on the complaint of 5 disabled chemical attackers from the time of sacred defense against companies that produced poisonous substances for the Baathist regime in Iraq. During the court hearing, chronic illnesses caused by the inhalation of mustard gas were described.

They were defended by a Dutch lawyer and a professor of international law, and the court also heard defense by lawyers from two Dutch companies.

The Court of The Hague is expected to deliver its verdict after hearing this case on the liability of these companies in terms of causing irreparable physical and mental harm to the victims of chemical attacks, and if these two Dutch companies are convicted, the conditions will arise for the prosecution of other American and European enterprises that also sold chemical weapons to Saddam.