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| Saddam in court for second trial | Saddam in court for second trial |
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| Saddam Hussein is back in court in Baghdad for his trial on charges of genocide, two days after being sentenced to death in a separate trial. | |
| The former Iraqi president is facing charges in connection with a military campaign against the Kurds in northern Iraq in the late 1980s. | The former Iraqi president is facing charges in connection with a military campaign against the Kurds in northern Iraq in the late 1980s. |
| More than 180,000 people are alleged to have died in the Anfal campaign. | More than 180,000 people are alleged to have died in the Anfal campaign. |
| The trial resumes as the curfew imposed for the verdict in the first trial has been lifted. | The trial resumes as the curfew imposed for the verdict in the first trial has been lifted. |
| It is not clear if the Iraqi authorities will wait until the second trial is complete before they carry out the sentence in the first case. | |
| Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death by hanging over the killing of 148 people in the mainly Shia town of Dujail following an assassination attempt on him in 1982. | |
| The Shia-led government of Prime Minister Nouri Maliki has made it clear it wants the execution to take place soon as possible but some Kurdish politicians have said they want the Anfal case to be finished first. | |
| More trials are possible over Saddam Hussein's response to a 1991 Shia uprising and the repression of the people of Iraq's southern marshlands. |