The Crime of Aggression

• As a member of the Revolutionary Command Council, he is alleged to be complicit in launching two wars of aggression against Iran and Kuwait; invading Saudi Arabia and attacking the town of Khafji in January 1991.

War Crimes

• As a member of the Revolutionary Command Council, he is alleged to be complicit in the gross violations of Geneva Convention IV Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time Of War and Geneva Convention III Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, committed by Iraqi forces during the war with Iran and during the occupation of Kuwait between August 1990 - March 1991.

• Personally lent himslef to the act of hostage taking in Iraq and Kuwait during the Gulf Conflict, in breach of the Convention Against the Taking of Hostages.

Genocide

• As a member of the Revolutionary Command Council, he is alleged to be complicit in the use of excessive military force against the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq as part of an ongoing campaign against the Shi'as, including the deliberate destruction of the Marsh Arabs' way of life.
  

• As a member of the Revolutionary Command Council, he is alleged to be complicit in the genocidal Anfal campaigns waged against the Kurds, including chemical weapons attacks, destruction of rural villages and the rural infrastructure and mass executions.