Saddam trial resumes in Baghdad courtroom

BAGHDAD, Sep 19 (Reuters) The trial of Saddam Hussein and six former commanders on charges of launching a genocidal campaign against Iraq's ethnic Kurds in the late 1980s resumed in a Baghdad courtroom today.

Saddam, his cousin Ali Hassan al-Majeed, known as ''Chemical Ali'', and five others face war crimes and crimes against humanity for their roles in the 1988 Anfal campaign -- Spoils of War -- in northern Kurdistan.

Saddam and Majeed also face the graver charges of genocide.

If found guilty all men face death by hanging.

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