Iraq Court Charges Hussein with Genocide of Kurds - New York Times

Iraq Court Charges Hussein with Genocide of Kurds - New York Times: "April 4, 2006

BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 4 — The special Iraqi court that is trying Saddam Hussein said today that it had charged the president and six former officials with attempting to exterminate the Kurdish race in massacres throughout the 1980's that killed nearly 100,000 civilians.

The case is the first against Mr. Hussein to address the large-scale human rights violations committed during his decades in power, the same crimes the Bush administration has often cited to justify its costly invasion of Iraq.

The most serious of the three charges brought against Mr. Hussein and his co-defendants is genocide."