Tariq Aziz, Former Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Under Saddam Hussein, Sentenced to 15 Years for Role in Murders

The Iraqi High Tribunal has sentenced Tariq Aziz, the former foreign minister and deputy prime minister under Saddam Hussein, to 15 years in prison for his involvement in the execution of 42 flour merchants who had been accused of profiteering during economic sanctions.

Aziz argued that the executions were part of his political duties and that he was not personally responsible for the deaths.

Aziz has been in custody since surrendering to U.S. forces in April 2003 and the Iraqi High Tribunal ruling was his first conviction, he had earlier been acquitted in a trial tied to the 1999 killing of Shia Muslim protesters.

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