Why was the trial not held by an international tribunal at The Hague, as was the trial of Slobodan Milosevic?
The US government announced before the fall of Baghdad that it wanted the trial to be in Iraq. Malcolm Smart, Amnesty International’s Middle East and North Africa director, said there was a case initially for making it an Iraqi process but given the flaws in the tribunal hearing, Amnesty is “urging the Iraqi government to consider other options”.
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