Ali Hassan al-Majid

Ali Hassan al-Majid

Ali Hassan Majid al-Tikriti (Arabic: علي حسن مجيد التكريت, romanized: ʿAlī Ḥasan Majīd al-Tikrītī; c. 1941 – 25 January 2010), nicknamed Chemical Ali (Arabic: علي الكيمياوي, romanized: ʿAlī al-Kīmīawī), was an Iraqi politician and military commander under Saddam Hussein who served as defence minister, interior minister, and chief of the Iraqi Intelligence Service. He was also the governor of Kuwait during much of the 1990–91 Gulf War. A first cousin of former Ba'athist Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, al-Majid became notorious in the 1980s and 1990s for his alleged role in the Iraqi government's campaigns against internal opposition forces, namely the ethnic Kurdish rebels of the north, and the Shia rebels of the south. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ali Hassan al-Majid has received more than 1,062,802 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Ali Hassan al-Majid is the 10th most popular public worker (up from 11th in 2019), the 57th most popular biography from Iraq (down from 51st in 2019) and the most popular Iraqi Public Worker.

Ali hassan al-majid is most famous for being the Iraqi General who was in charge of the Anfal Campaign, which was a campaign of genocide against the Kurdish people.