Sucks to be a Dutchman
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A Dutch appeals court raised the prison sentence of a Dutch businessman to 17 years after confirming on Wednesday he was guilty of complicity in war crimes for selling chemicals to Iraq used in deadly gas attacks.
Frans Van Anraat was sentenced in 2005 to 15 years in prison for complicity in war crimes for supplying raw materials that were used to make poison gas by Saddam Hussein’s Iraq in the 1980-1988 war with Iran.
The poison gas was also used against Iraq’s own Kurdish population, including an attack on the town of Halabja in 1988 which killed an estimated 5,000 people.
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Wow, sucks to be a Dutchman. If he were an American, he could’ve just continued his business …
