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To: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck who wrote (2181)	10/9/2006 9:17:26 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 20106

Saddam's men 'buried family alive' Herald Sun ^ \| 9 October 2006 \| Kawther Abdul-Amir news.com.au SADDAM Hussein's forces buried a Kurdish family alive in a mass grave in northern Iraq in the 1980s, a witness told the genocide trial of the ousted Iraqi leader today. The Kurdish woman, sitting to the left of the judges and speaking from behind a curtain to protect her identity, was the latest witness to give testimony about Saddam's 1988 Anfal (Spoils of War) campaign against the Kurds in northern Iraq. "I know the fate of my family. They were buried alive," she told the court through a translator. "I would like to ask Saddam a question: 'What was the guilt of women and children?". She did not say how many members of her family were buried alive. Prosecutors said identity cards belonging to members of her family had been found in mass graves in Kurdistan. Thousands of Kurds, including many women and children, were taken from their villages, executed and then dumped in mass graves in northern and southern Iraq, prosecutors say. Saddam's trial resumed today after a two-week break. Chaos reigned at the previous session, when Saddam was repeatedly ejected from the courtroom and his lawyers walked out over the sacking of the chief judge. Saddam and his six co-accused were present today, but their defence team continued to boycott the trial in protest at the Government's dismissal of chief judge Abdullah al-Amiri for saying Saddam was "not a dictator". (Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ....