Taha Yasin Ramadan al-Jizrawi (Arabic: طه ياسين رمضان الجزراوي; 20 February 1938 – 20 March 2007) was an Iraqi military officer and politician who served as the vice president of Iraq from March 1991 to the fall of Saddam Hussein in April 2003 and the commander of the Popular Army. Taha Yassin Ramadan, former vicepresident of Iraq, was executed by hanging for his involvement in the 1982 killing of 148 Iraqis in Dujail. Ramadans execution occurred at 3:05 AM, marking him as the third aide of Saddam Hussein to face death since the USled invasion. Iraqi Vice President, his full name was Taha Yasin Ramadan Al-Jizrawi. He served as the Vice President of Iraq under former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein from March 1991 until the fall of Hussein's government in April of 2003. Taha Yassin Ramadan, who was Saddam's vice president when the regime was ousted four years ago, was the fourth man to be executed in the killings of 148 Shiites following a 1982 assassination Taha Yassin Ramadan, who served as Saddam's vice president, was hanged for his role in the torture and killing of 148 Shiites in the early 1980s. The Iraqi government requested Monday night Here are some key facts on the former vice-president, Taha Yassin Ramadan. * Born to a peasant family in the northern region of Mosul in the late 1930's, Ramadan worked in a bank after completing Former Iraqi Vice-President Taha Yassin Ramadan has been hanged on the fourth anniversary of the US-led invasion which overthrew Saddam Hussein. The execution happened before dawn at a prison Iraq's High Tribunal has sentenced Saddam Hussein's former vice-president Taha Yassin Ramadan to be hanged. He was tried alongside the former Iraqi leader over the killing of 148 Shias in Taha Yassin Ramadan, who was Saddam's vice president when the regime was ousted nearly four years ago, was the fourth man to be executed in the killings of 148 Shiites following a 1982 Former Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan has been sentenced to death by hanging by the Iraqi High Court for his role in the 1980s killings of 148 Shia men in Dujail, despite appeals from the UN and Human Rights Watch to spare his life. BAGHDAD, March 20 — The former vice president of Iraq, Taha Yassin Ramadan, was hanged shortly before dawn today, the prime minister’s office said. Mr. Ramadan is the fourth member of the Taha Yasin Ramadan al-Jizrawi (Arabic: طه ياسين رمضان الجزراوي; 20 February 1938 – 20 March 2007) was an Iraqi military officer and politician, who served as one of the three vice presidents of Iraq from March 1991 to the fall of Saddam Hussein in April 2003 and the commander of the Popular Army. Taha Yasin Ramadan Al-Jizrawi. Taha Yasin Ramadan Al-Jizrawi was a member of the Revolutionary Command Council as well as a former vice-president under Saddam Hussein's Regime. The former vice president of Iraq, Taha Yassin Ramadan, has gone to the gallows for his role in the killing of 148 Shiites in Dujail in 1982. Unlike the executions of Saddam Hussein and his half Taha Yasin Ramadan · 9. Taha Muhieh Eldin Maruf · 8. Hikmat Mizvan Ibrahim · 7. Amir Hamudy Hassan al-Sadi · 6. Sabawi Ibrahim al-Tikriti · 5. Abdul Baki al-Sadun · 4. Yahya Abdallah al-Ubadi · 3. Musin Qadr · 2. Adil Abdallah Mahi BAGHDAD, Aug 19: Coalition forces took custody on Tuesday of former Iraqi vice-president Taha Yassin Ramadan, Saddam Hussein’s hawkish right-hand man and the most senior member of the ousted Taha Yassin Ramadan was executed on 20 March 2007. back to top Legally relevant facts. On 8 July 1982, the president’s convoy was travelling through the town of Al Dujail when it was fired upon from a position behind a tree in one of the town’s orchards. On this date in 2007, Saddam Hussein‘s former Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan was hanged for helping conduct the 1982 Dujail Massacre of Shia Iraqis in revenge for an assassination plot against Saddam. Pushing 70, the Kurd was a longtime pillar of the Iraqi Ba’ath party and had served in a variety of posts since it took power in 1968. Men pray near the body of Iraq's former vice president Taha Yassin Ramadan during a funeral in Awja, near Tikrit, 175 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, March 20, 2007. Saddam Hussein's former vice president Ramadan was hanged for crimes against humanity early on Tuesday, the fourth anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein
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