Hakim Abbas Mousa Abbas al-Zamili is an Iraqi politician from the Sadrist Movement who was Deputy Health Minister from May 2006 until April 2007. Since January 2022, he is the First Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives (Parliament).[1]

Health Ministry

al-Zamili was deputy minister during the height of the sectarian conflict in Iraq.[2] Whilst he was at the ministry, he was accused of running death squads that used ambulances and hospitals to kidnap and murder Sunni Arabs.[3] U.S. troops arrested al-Zamili in February 2007, accusing him of funneling money to private militias.[4] He was also accused of kidnapping in November 2006 another Deputy Health Minister, Ammar al-Saffar, from the Shiite Dawa Party, who had allegedly compiled a dossier of his crimes that he was going to hand over to the Prime Minister.[5][6] He was cleared of all charges when key witnesses failed to show up after facing alleged intimidation.[7]

Member of parliament

He was listed fifteenth on the list of the Iraqi National Alliance slate for the 2010 Iraqi parliamentary election.[8] He was elected and in January 2011 was appointed to the security committee.[9][10][11] Zamili is currently the head of Parliament's security and defense committee.[12]

He was re-elected to Parliament in the 2021 Iraqi parliamentary election. He was elected deputy speaker of parliament in January 2022.[13]

References

  1. ^ "Iraqi lawmakers elect Sadrist MP Hakim al-Zamili as first deputy speaker". Kurdistan24. 9 January 2022.
  2. ^ See Civil war in Iraq for more details
  3. ^ "Kidnappers seize Iraqi minister". 19 November 2006.
  4. ^ THE REACH OF WAR; Iraq's No. 2 Health Official Is Held and Accused of Financing Shiite Militants
  5. ^ Hakim al-Zamili: Accused death squad chief turned INA parliamentary candidate Archived 2011-08-07 at the Wayback Machine, KurdishMedia, 2010-03-05
  6. ^ "Iraqi Premier Wants Trial of 2 Shiites in Killings (Published 2007)". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2023-04-17.
  7. ^ "Iraq's Sadrists demand U.S. release former minister". March 4, 2008. Washington Post.
  8. ^ Murky Candidacy Stokes Iraq’s Sectarian Fears, New York Times, 2010-03-10
  9. ^ "Victors In Iraqi Elections Include Suspected Murderers". NPR. Archived from the original on 2016-12-15.
  10. ^ Parliament Agrees on Committees, But Not on Their Leaders, Reidar Visser, 2011-01-17
  11. ^ Murky Candidacy Stokes Iraq’s Sectarian Fears
  12. ^ "Iraq: Turkey troops near Mosul violating international law". Al Arabiya News. 2015-12-05. Retrieved 2015-12-05.
  13. ^ "KDP puts forth candidate for deputy parliament speaker". Rudaw. 10 January 2022. Retrieved 10 January 2022.
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