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Denis Halliday, the UN official who quit over Iraq and stood with Eelam Tamils
Denis Halliday, the UN official who quit over Iraq and stood with Eelam Tamils by Thusi test Fri, 30/10/2026 - 14:39 Body Denis Halliday speaking at the European Parliament in October 2019. Photograph: GUE/NGL / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) Denis Halliday, the former UN Assistant Secretary-General who resigned in protest at sanctions on Iraq and later co-chaired the people's tribunal that found Sri Lanka guilty of genocide against Eelam Tamils, has died in Dublin aged 85. He died peacefully on 11 October in the presence of his family, according to a death notice published in The Irish Tim…