Defendants in the second Saddam Hussein trial
insisted on Tuesday that Iraq's military was
attacking Iranian troops and Kurdish rebels only
when it launched the Anfal campaign in the 1980s in
which tens of thousands of Kurds were killed.
Their comments came on the second day of the trial,
in which Saddam is charged with genocide over the
1987-88 Operation Anfal, during which troops swept
across parts of northern Iraq [South-Kurdistan],
destroying villages.
Two of the defendants addressed the court and
insisted Anfal was targeted at Iranian troops and
allied Kurdish guerrillas in northern Iraq at a time
when Iraq and Iran were locked in a bloody war.
"The goal was to fight an organized, armed army ...
the goal was not civilians," said Sultan Hashim
al-Tai, who was the commander of Task Force Anfal
and head of the Iraqi army 1st Corps. - AP
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This report includes archive filmed in 1989 of
Saddam Hussein visiting a village which had been
targeted. It shows him being presented with
petitions by desperate Kurds, many of whom had swum
across a river to reach him. It also includes
interviews with relatives of victims describing what
happened.
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Witness Ali Mustafa Hama (L) testifies in the
"Anfal" genocide against the Kurds on Tuesday.
Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein (R).
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