Iraqi forces have arrested Mizher Taha Ahmed al-Ghannam al-Juburi, an ex-army officer accused of killing and deporting Marsh Arabs during the rule of Saddam Hussein.
The arrest warrant was issued on the basis of testimony that the former intelligence officer, in the army's fourth brigade, killed and deported Marsh Arabs in the south between 1992 and 1996.
Saddam's regime acted against the inhabitants of the marshlands, when opposition militants took refuge among the area's reeds; after the abortive Shiite uprising in the south, following the 1991 Gulf war.
The regime drained most of the marshes and torched the reeds, effectively killing off the way of life of the occupants of the marshes.
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