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IRAQNew Saddam trial begins Saddam Hussein refused to enter a plea on genocide charges and dismissed the court as illegitimate as his second trial began Aug. 21 in a case prosecutors said will expose the wide-scale killings of tens of thousands of Kurds nearly two decades ago during Operation Anfal. The trial is the second for Saddam in connection to alleged atrocities during his regime -- and it comes with the verdict pending from the first, which concerned a crackdown on Shiites in the town of Dujail in the 1980s. Saddam faces execution by hanging if convicted in either case. The Dujail court is due to pronounce its judgment on Oct. 16. If Saddam is sentenced to death and the verdict stands up on appeal, Iraqi law provides for him to be taken off the second case for the sentence to be carried out.
The Japan Times Weekly: Aug. 26, 2006 |
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