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Iraqi Kurdish media note on Saddam Hussein
trial
19.10.2005
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The trial of Saddam
Hussein and his top aides has been the focus of the
media in Iraq's Kurdish north, with both stations,
the Kurdistan Satellite TV and KurdSat, broadcasting
documentary films narrating the 24-year long story
of the former Iraqi president and the "appalling
crimes he had committed against the Iraqi people and
humanity".
The Kurdistan Democratic Party, KDP-run Kurdistan
Satellite TV broadcast a documentary programme in
Arabic to highlight the crimes Saddam Hussein and
his aides had committed against the Iraqi people,
particularly those against the Kurdish people such
as the chemical bombardment of the town of Halabjah
and the Anfal campaign it said was responsible for
disappearance and killing of nearly 182,000 Kurds
and destruction of more than 4,000 Kurdish villages.
It also mentioned in depth the wars the former
president entered into and the damage the wars
caused.
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Former dictator Saddam Hussein
Photo : AP
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The
documentary showed archive footage of Hussein's army
tanks, machine guns and helicopters in action with
the sounds of heavy bombardments.
At 0930 gmt the station began broadcasting a live
programme on Saddam Hussein's trial. The programme
hosted the minister of human rights in the KDP-led
Kurdistan regional government, Muhammad Ihasan. The
presenter said the programme would air the trial
live form the studio. However, the station joined
Al-Iraqiyah TV to broadcast the live proceedings
with a Kurdish voice-over of the commentators.
The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, PUK-run KurdSat TV
broadcast a documentary in Kurdish also to highlight
the crimes of the former Iraqi government had
committed against Kurds and Shi'is narrating in
depth the Iran-Iraq war which Saddam Hussein had
ignited, and the "illegitimate" war against Kuwait,
the First Gulf War.
The station dedicated a 20-minute report to the same
purpose and interviewed several people from Kirkuk
to talk about their the discrimination and
injustices they were exposed to.
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