The Iraqi High Tribunal today announced that Saddam Hussein and six co-defendants will be put on trial on August 21 for the 1980s Anfal campaign in which an estimated 100,000 Kurds were killed in northern Iraq.

Skeletons, many wearing clothes and blindfolded, jut out from the desert sands in south-western Iraq where forensics experts have unearthed at least two mass graves of victims from the brutal suppression of a 1991 Shiite uprising.

IRAQI authorities yesterday filed genocide charges against Saddam Hussein, accusing him and six co-defendants in the 1980s crackdown that killed an estimated 100,000 Kurds.