Forensic expert describes Kurdish mass graves in Saddam trial

Kurdish victims found in three mass graves included more than 230 women and children along with dozens of adult men, who were lined up and gunned down by troops and buried where they fell, an American forensic expert testified today in the genocide trial of Saddam Hussein.

Michael Trimble described a number of the bodies his team analysed from the graves: a pregnant woman shot through her abdomen, killing the foetus; a young girl wearing little green boots whose leg had been shattered by bullets and an infant who had no bullet wounds and apparently smothered under the body of his mother.