Saddam trail witness feigned death to survive massacre
A witness in Saddam Hussein’s genocide trial in Baghdad today said he survived a massacre by feigning death when Iraqi soldiers shot at Kurdish detainees.
The witness, who testified from behind a curtain to conceal his identity, said he was one of dozens of prisoners who were taken in buses to an execution site in western Iraq in April 1988 during the crackdown by Saddam’s regime on the Kurdish population.
