(23 Aug 2006)
1. Wide of Saddam and his co-defendants in the dock
2. Close-up of Saddam Hussein listening to testimony with his headphones on
3. Chief Judge Abdullah al-Ameri listening
4. Kurdish witness called Adiba Oula Bayez sitting in court testifying
5. Various of defendants in dock
6. SOUNDBITE: (Kurdish) Adiba Oula Bayez, witness:
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"My five children lost their sight and they were unable to see any thing. My foot and body was burned. My skin was charred. We stayed one night longer in caves.''
7. Wide of defendants
8. SOUNDBITE: (Kurdish) No name given, Kurdish witness:
''I lost my two brothers, my father and my uncle. They (government forces) 'anfalised' them, (a term coined by Kurds and used by all three of the survivors so far to refer to those who disappeared and were killed in the Anfal campaign)".
9. Lawyer talking
10. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Saddam Hussein, former Iraqi President:
''I wonder if the village in which she lived was struck with chemical weapons, why she was hurt while the others, her two sisters or daughters and a husband of one them were not hurt. And why those who came to rescue her had not been hurt too.''
11. Chief Judge Abdullah al-Ameri
12. Wide shot defendants in dock
STORYLINE:
A Kurdish woman claimed she lost her two brothers, her farther and uncle in the attack carried out by the then Iraqi governmental troops in testimony on Wednesday at the genocide trial of Saddam Hussein.
''They "anfalised" them, (a term coined by Kurds and used by all three of the survivors so far to refer to those who disappeared and were killed in the Anfal campaign)", said the witness.
Saddam Hussein objected the woman's remarks, saying why she was hurt in the chemical attack while her two sisters or daughters who had earlier attended as witnesses had not been hurt.
For a second day, survivors took to the stand in the trial, in which Saddam and six co-defendants are charged over the 1987-1988 Anfal campaign, a military sweep against the Kurds of northern Iraq in which tens of thousands of people were killed.
Earlier, a Kurdish woman described huddling with her children in a cave as warplanes bombarded her village with chemical weapons.
Adiba Oula Bayez described the bombardment of her village of Balisan on August 16, 1987, saying warplanes dropped bombs which spread a smoke which smelled like rotten apples.
Bayez said the villagers fled to nearby caves on mules. Like many villagers, she was blinded by the gas, she said.
The villagers were taken by the military to a prison camp, and Bayez said four people kept in the same room with her died.
On the fifth day in jail, she pried open her swollen eyes with her fingers.
"My five children lost their sight and they were unable to see any thing. My foot and body was burned. My skin was charred. We stayed one night longer in caves."
Bayez's account resembled those of two other survivors of the attack on Balisan and the neighbouring village of Sheik Wasan who testified in the trial on Tuesday.
The survivors are testifying as plaintiffs in the case.
Saddam and his six co-defendants could face execution by hanging if convicted in the Anfal case.
Saddam and his cousin, Ali Hassan al-Majid, a Baath Party leader who allegedly organised Anfal, are charged with genocide, considered the toughest charge to prove since its requires showing their intention was to exterminate part of an ethnic group.
Saddam and al-Majid also face charges of crimes against humanity and war crimes, as do their co-defendants, most of whom are former military figures.
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