Iraqis weigh trials for regime figures

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BAGHDAD -- In its first move to confront Iraq's legacy of brutal repression, the new Governing Council has created a judicial panel to establish a legal framework for trying Saddam Hussein and his chief associates for war crimes, according to a major Iraqi political party.


Entifadh Qanbar, spokesman for the Iraqi National Congress, said yesterday that the council wants to try the former dictator if he is captured, or in absentia, as well as the other 55 ''most-wanted'' leaders of the toppled regime. He said the trials, for crimes against humanity and genocide, would take place in Iraqi courts.

The Hussein regime is accused, among other allegations, of killing 8,000 Kurds in 1983, and in the deaths of an estimated 300,000 Shi'ite Muslims who rebelled after the 1991 Gulf War.

http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/197/nation/Iraqis_weigh_trials_for_regime_figures+.shtml

[meegbear]

1. Great!

I'm glad the U.S. ... umm I mean the Iraqs ... made that decision.