Kurdish woman curses Saddam for attack

BAGHDAD – An Iraqi Kurd told Saddam Hussein’s genocide trial yesterday she was horribly burned and lost three children after aircraft bombed her mountain village with chemical weapons.

“I lost my sight. My children lost their sight …My house was razed to the ground.May God blind them all,” said Adiba Owla Bayez, pointing at the former Iraqi president and his six co-defendants on the third day of their trial.Describing a spring evening in 1987, the 45-year-old mother of five said aircraft dropped bombs behind her house and she had immediately noticed a difference from previous attacks.”We smelt a peculiar smell.It was rotten apple …My daughter Nargis said she had pain in the stomach and in her eyes.She was vomiting.All my children were vomiting.I too felt like that and started vomiting,” said Bayez.The testimony echoed the recollections of two other witnesses of events on April 16, 1987, nearly a year before the formal launch of the Anfal – Spoils of War – campaign in the Balisan valley, north of Sulaimaniya.A verdict in the Dujail trial is expected in October and Saddam faces the death penalty.Nampa-ReutersMy children lost their sight …My house was razed to the ground.May God blind them all,” said Adiba Owla Bayez, pointing at the former Iraqi president and his six co-defendants on the third day of their trial.Describing a spring evening in 1987, the 45-year-old mother of five said aircraft dropped bombs behind her house and she had immediately noticed a difference from previous attacks.”We smelt a peculiar smell.It was rotten apple …My daughter Nargis said she had pain in the stomach and in her eyes.She was vomiting.All my children were vomiting.I too felt like that and started vomiting,” said Bayez.The testimony echoed the recollections of two other witnesses of events on April 16, 1987, nearly a year before the formal launch of the Anfal – Spoils of War – campaign in the Balisan valley, north of Sulaimaniya.A verdict in the Dujail trial is expected in October and Saddam faces the death penalty.Nampa-Reuters