About Sadi Tuma Abbas
Lived 1939 – 2020 (aged 81). Sadi Tuma Abbas was an Iraqi military officer, politician and civil servant.
Saadi Toma Abbas (; 17 March 1939 – 23 June 2020) was a former Iraqi military and politician. He was born in 1939 and held various ministerial positions during the rule of Saddam Hussein.
On 12 December 1990, he was appointed as Ministry of Defence and remained in office until 6 April 1991. He worked as military advisor at the Presidential Court from 6 April 1991 to 1998. In 1998 he was appointed Minister of Labor and Social Affairs and remained in his position until 29 June 2002.
He was arrested by the American forces on 18 May 2003.
Trial On 2 December 2008, the Iraqi Supreme Criminal Court sentenced him to 15 years in prison for suppressing the 1991 uprising in Iraq while he was serving as commander of the military forces in the southern region.
Death Saadi Toma Abbas died on 23 June 2020 in the Nasiriyah Central Prison.
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Iraq minister
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Sadi Tuma Abbas was born on 17 March 1939 in Najaf.
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Sadi Tuma Abbas died on 23 June 2020 in Nasiriyah Central Prison.
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Sadi Tuma Abbas was a military officer, politician and civil servant.
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Sadi Tuma Abbas was Iraqi.
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