Prosecutor for prompt hanging.
Trial of Saddam Hussein along with seven other co-accuseds
resumed on 12th March at Baghdad. The charges against them
are related to killing of 148
villagers from Dujali,
located north of Baghdad. The ex-dictator of Iraq is
charged with killing the villagers after he escaped an
assassination attempt on him at Dujali in 1982.
The trial resumed with Mizher Abdullah Kadam al-Raweed, a
Baath party official from Dujali testifying to the court.
Mr. Jaafar Mussawi, Chief Prosecutor of the Iraqi high
tribunal said on state television that Saddam or any one or
more of the co-accuseds would be hanged to
death immediately if death
sentence is pronounced against them in
this case of genocide.
In this respect, the law stipulates carrying out the death
sentence within 30 days. The surviving defendants would be
tried for other remaining cases as those executed cannot be
tried. Saddam and others have also been charged with
several other crimes such as use of poison gas in 1980-88
against Iraqi Kurds and crushing of a Shi’ite Revolt in the
nineties after the Gulf War.
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