"TAHA YASIN RAMADAN was one of the individuals who had prior knowledge of the attack on Halabja and actively supported it."

"TAHA YASSIN RAMADAN was supervising loading prisoners onto buses. When they were full they were driven away...We were soon transported to Radhwaniya prison in Baghdad...The questions centred on our supposed role...and they asked us to prove that we were not involved. I was interrogated three times and was slapped and kicked repeatedly during this time. We were crammed into a cell 6 m by 5 m and there was barely room to sit down. It was dark and there were no lights. Prisoners were taken out for interrogation and then returned, often unconscious. We could hear the screaming from other parts of the prison."

"...Most of them appeared to have been badly beaten. Approximately 15 had been buried in the ground up to their necks...Some of them appeared to be dead, some of them still alive...In the quarry...[was] TAHA YASIN RAMADAN, whom I had seen several times before that in military camps and whom I had been introduced to [previously]...There were also approximately 20 women and children there, including...boys approximately 14 years old...They began shouting and swearing, insulting SADDAM HUSSEIN and his regime. I was standing about 5m away from TAHA YASIN RAMADAN when this happened. He became very angry and ordered his bodyguards to fill their mouths with sand to stop them insulting the regime. However, the boys spat the sand out of their mouths and continued shouting insults. TAHA YASIN RAMADAN became very angry. He reached for his pistol and cocked it. He killed one of the boys personally, and his bodyguards shot the others...I saw two bulldozers arrive. There were presumably there to bury the dead."