Iraqi High Tribunal announces second Saddam trial
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.
Charges in the case were announced in April and involve Saddam’s alleged role in Operation Anfal, Arabic for “spoils of war”, which was launched to crush independence-minded Kurdish militias and clear the Kurdish population sensitive Iranian border area.
