Prosecutors said Tuesday they will charge a Dutchman, 62, with genocide and
war crimes for supplying former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein with lethal chemicals that were used in the 1988 chemical attack on the Kurdish town of Halabja.
Wim de Bruin of the national prosecutor's office said the man, who was arrested in Amsterdam on Monday, will face charges "for violating the laws of war and involvement in genocide."
"The man is suspected of delivering thousands of tons of raw materials for chemical weapons to the former regime in Baghdad between 1984 and 1988," prosecutors said in a statement.
