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Saddam Hussein Genocide Trial Continues

HeadlineAug 23, 2006

In Baghdad, an Iraqi Kurd told Saddam Hussein’s genocide trial today that she was horribly burned and lost three children after aircraft bombed her mountain village with chemical weapons. The woman, Adiba Owla Bayez, said that she suffered two miscarriages after the 1987 attack. On Tuesday, another Kurd, Ali Mustafa Hafa described the day his Kurdish village was attacked.

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