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1631 -HQ-1462938 population. AL-MAJID isolated the Kurdish population by issuing decrees and administrative orders depriving them of basic rights. AL-MAJID signed an Iraqi Ba'ath Party letter dated April 6, 1987, #S Sh/18/2396, which ordered the confiscation of the “saboteurs” property: By the authority vested in us by the RCC decree #160 of March 29, 1987, we decided to authorize the chairman of the security committees in the northern govenorates to confiscate the real and personal property of the saboteurs, provided that the their properties are liquidated within one month of the date of issuance of the confiscation decree. (This document is described in the HRW report titled, "Genocide in Iraq: The Anfal Campaign Against the Kurds," dated July, 1993, and referenced on page 13 and in footnote 41 of the Prelude to Anfal section of the report.) AL-MAJID was questioned regarding this letter and admitted giving this authority to the security committees, but did not remember the details. He stated that the confiscation discussed applied to money as well as real property. AL-MAJID stated the authority for this order was not based on RCC decree #160, but on a separate RCC decree authorizing confiscation of funds and property of individuals who worked against the Iraq Government as saboteurs, and the confiscation of funds and property of individuals in the Da'wa Party. These two categories of individuals were considered to be hostile or anti-Iraq Government political forces. AL-MAJID does not remember the number or date of the RCC decree he referenced. [AL-MAJID interview, April 4, 2004]. On April 10, 1987, RADHI HASSAN SALMAN (hereinafter SALMAN), Deputy Secretary of the Northern Bureau Command, suspended the legal rights of residents in villages within the prohibited-security zone. In Northen Bureau letter Number 1/2713, SALMAN wrote: His excellency has ordered that [legal] cases of people from the villages prohibited for security reasons or cases of the saboteurs, 32