Dang. Don't that put a chill in your bones!
Here we go.....
Now Saddam to face trial for genocide of thousands of Kurds.
Saddam Hussein and his former top army commanders will go on trial on 21 August on charges of killing tens of thousands of Iraqi Kurds in 1988 in a military operation to force them from their villages.
The Kurds, whose northern region is still haunted by the seven- month "Anfal" campaign, have long sought justice and want the former dictator to face the death penalty, as he does in his current trial over the killing of Shiites.
All face charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity, while Saddam and Majeed face the additional, graver charge of genocide, which also carries the death penalty. Saddam is currently being tried only for crimes against humanity.
In the "Anfal" campaign - Anfal, meaning "spoils of war", is taken from a verse in the Koran that calls for terror to be struck into the hearts of unbelievers - mustard gas and nerve agents were used to drive villagers from their homes. By some estimates 4,500 villages were destroyed and hundreds of thousands of people killed, tortured or displaced. The attacks devastated Kurdistan, and the mountainous region bordering Turkey has never fully recovered.
That radical islam sure is a blessing in this world, ain't it?
