Jemera Rone
Jemera Rone
Jemera Rone has been Counsel for Human Rights Watch since 1985, specializing in international humanitarian law, and has been the researcher for Sudan since 1993. Her reports on Sudan include Famine in Sudan: The Human Rights Causes (1999). She regularly conducts field research in Sudan and neighboring countries.
General Bareq
General Bareq, a "hero of al-Qadissiyah," (the Iran-Iraq War), was now in charge of a Special Forces detachment guarding the Kirkuk oilfields. Other witnesses also reported sighting him at Glazerda Mountain, during the Second Anfal. According to a former Iraqi police chief, Bareq was also the commander of military campaigns against Shi'a dissidents in the south in the mid-1980s. (Middle East Watch interview with Hamdi Abd-al-Majid Gilli, Suleimaniyeh, July 24, 1992.) Bareq was reportedly executed in 1991 on suspicion of being involved in a plot to overthrow President Saddam Hussein.