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Saddam charged with Genocide - sperate charges
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| skot_e |
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitem...04/s1609517.htm
| quote: | The tumultuous trial of Saddam Hussein has resumed after a three-week break, with charges of genocide in a separate case now looming for the former Iraqi dictator.
The only defendant in the court, a composed Saddam Hussein walked into the tribunal and immediately launched into a tirade against the interior ministry as the chief judge Rauf Abdel Rahman opened the session.
Saddam described the ministry as a "side that kills thousands in the street and tortures them".
He however was interrupted by the judge who told him to refrain from political statements to which Saddam said "you're scared of the interior minister, he doesn't scare my dog".
Saddam and seven other co-defendants are currently on trial for allegedly executing more than 140 inhabitants of the Shiite village of Dujail following an assassination attempt there against the deposed president in 1982.
The Iraqi High Tribunal on Tuesday said it would charge Saddam and six others for genocide for their role in the killing of Kurds in the late 1980s during the Anfal campaign.
The recess was originally meant to give the judges time to draft the specific charges in the case, re-examine evidence and move the trial to the next phase, but much still remains to be done, chief prosecutor Jaafar al-Mussawi told AFP last week.
Mr Mussawi also said that the prosecution has new documents linking the defendants to the case.
"They involve communications and messages exchanged between high officials" of the previous regime over the Dujail affair, he said.
The issue of documents will be central to tying the defendants to the crimes they are charged with, but several of the defendants cast doubt on the authenticity of the documents presented so far, many of which bear their signatures.
A US official close to the court said on Tuesday that Wednesday's session could be a short one.
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| stren |
| not that changes the sentence anyway, this will just make the trial longer. |
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| Sunsnail |
| so, can anyone be charged with genocide? If I go out and kill a few million people would I be charged with it? just curious |
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| Q5echo |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sunsnail
If I go out and kill a few million people would I be charged with it? just curious |
no. |
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| Lepanto |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sunsnail
so, can anyone be charged with genocide? If I go out and kill a few million people would I be charged with it? just curious |
Genocide is defined by the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) article 2 as any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such: "Killing members of the group; Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; and forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."
if you go after a group or groups, yes. |
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| Sunsnail |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lepanto
Genocide is defined by the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) article 2 as any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such: "Killing members of the group; Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; and forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."
if you go after a group or groups, yes. |
ok thanks |
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| Demoted |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lepanto
Genocide is defined by the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) article 2 as any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such: "Killing members of the group; Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; and forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."
if you go after a group or groups, yes. |
Man, if fire ants had a court then my ass would be owned. |
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