Team Infidel
Forum Spin Doctor
Media: AFP
Byline: n/a
Date: 19 October 2006
Body:
BAGHDAD, Oct 19, 2006 (AFP) - The trial of Saddam Hussein and six others on
charges of genocide against the Kurdish people resumed on Thursday with all
defendants present and court-appointed defense lawyers on hand.
Testimony immediately began on atrocities allegedly committed by Saddam's
forces in the course of the 1988 Anfal campaign against the rebellious
Kurds in the north of the country.
Thursday's session is the 18th of a trial that has seen chilling testimony
of gas attacks against villages, brutal prison conditions and late night
massacres in the desert.
Byline: n/a
Date: 19 October 2006
Body:
BAGHDAD, Oct 19, 2006 (AFP) - The trial of Saddam Hussein and six others on
charges of genocide against the Kurdish people resumed on Thursday with all
defendants present and court-appointed defense lawyers on hand.
Testimony immediately began on atrocities allegedly committed by Saddam's
forces in the course of the 1988 Anfal campaign against the rebellious
Kurds in the north of the country.
Thursday's session is the 18th of a trial that has seen chilling testimony
of gas attacks against villages, brutal prison conditions and late night
massacres in the desert.