A five‑inch‑too‑long rope cut the UN envoy's decade‑long immunity
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A five‑inch‑too‑long rope cut the UN envoy's decade‑long immunity
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A five‑inch‑too‑long rope cut the UN envoy's decade‑long immunity
In this episode, we follow the contradiction of a man who represented Iraq at the United Nations in Geneva while once running the intelligence service that erased a town. The story traces his rise through the Baath Party, the mechanisms of the Mukhabarat, and the trial that brings those years back into a Baghdad courtroom - but what happens next is the question.
Person: Barzan Ibrahim al‑Hassan al‑Tikriti
Date: January 15, 2007 / Trial start October 19, 2005
Location: Baghdad; Geneva
Event: Dujail operation and later trial
Institution: United Nations Human Rights Committee
- At 3:05 AM on January 15, 2007, a rope in a Baghdad execution chamber was five inches too long.
- Barzan was born in Tikrit in 1951, rose through the Baath Party, and by 17 participated in the 1968 coup.
- He ran the Mukhabarat in the 1970s-1980s, overseeing detention, torture methods including flogging with electrical cables, and executions.
- In 1982 the Dujail operation led to the documented execution of more than 140 men and mass internments; Barzan ran the intelligence apparatus that processed detainees.
- In 1989 he was appointed Iraq’s representative to the UN in Geneva and spent about a decade on the Human Rights Committee while family wealth and Swiss accounts tied to the al‑Tikriti network were identified.
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