Saddam trial witness recalls mass shootings and water torture

[sabra]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L27912560.htm

Victims made to walk on broken glass- Saddam trial

BAGHDAD, Nov 27 (Reuters) - Saddam Hussein, already condemned to hang, listened quietly in court on Monday as witnesses recalled mass shootings and water torture during a campaign that prosecutors say was genocide against the Kurds.

Two men now living in the United States gave evidence after a three-week break in the ousted Iraqi president's second trial. He was sentenced to death on Nov. 5 for crimes against humanity in the first of a dozen or more cases against him.

Yunis Haji, who was a 20-year-old Peshmerga fighter at the time of the 1988 Anfal -- Spoils of War -- campaign against ethnic Kurds, said Iraqi soldiers tortured him for three days.

"We were made to walk barefoot on broken glass," Haji told the court. "We were tied on a table and they used to drop cold water, drop by drop on our forehead.

"Every drop used to be like a mountain crashing on my head."

[Beelzebud]

1. And yet Cheney calls this "dunking", and "not torture".

[bullimiami]

2. water torture. and bush is....