Saddam Faces Genocide Charges

World | April 4, 2006, Tuesday // 00:00

Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is to be charged with genocide over a 1980s campaign against the Kurds, an Iraqi tribunal has announced. Saddam Hussein and six others face new charges over a campaign of arrests, deportation, and the destruction of property, known as the Anfal. Human rights groups say 180,000 civilians died in the campaign.

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