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Saddam Tells Countrymen to Feel No Guilt Over Kurd Deaths
A 56-year-old Kurdish-American woman told of seeing people sickened and dying during an alleged chemical attack carried out by Saddam Hussein’s forces, as the genocide trial of the ex-president resumed yesterday. The lunatic feisty former leader told his countrymen they should not feel guilty for crushing the Kurdish insurgency in the late 1980s. “My message to the Iraqi people is that they should not suffer from the guilt that they killed Kurds,” Saddam said shortly before the trial was adjourned for the day. It had just resumed after a three-week break.

The ousted president accused Kurdish witnesses against him of stirring sectarianism and racism. “All the witnesses said in the courtroom that they were oppressed because they were Kurds,” Saddam shouted. “They’re trying to create strife between the people of Iraq. They’re trying to create division between Kurds and Arabs and this is what I want the people of Iraq to know.”

The prosecution alleges that about 180,000 people were killed during the Anfal campaign in 1987-88 to crush a Kurdish insurgency during the later stages of a war with Iran. Addressing Iraqis, Saddam said passionately that the Kurds enjoyed rights under his regime and that he clamped down on insurgents among them.
Posted by: Fred 2006-09-12
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