MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Marianna Belenkaya)
Kurds and Shias, Hussein's political opponents irrespective of nationality and religion, and the people of Iran and Kuwait can say that justice has been done.This may be so, but it has left a bitter aftertaste. The situation reminds me of the recent death of another dictator, Augusto Pinochet, who, although charged with crimes against humanity, was never tried. The trial was called off because of the dictator's old age. When he died, hundreds of his opponents said they were sorry Pinochet had died without a trial and a sentence. They wanted a legal punishment rather than his death.
Unlike Pinochet, Hussein was sentenced to death, yet not all of his crimes have been proven in court.
Hussein was charged with crimes committed during more than a dozen incidents but only sentenced to death for the massacre of 148 Shias in the village of Dujail in 1982. After handing down this sentence, the court began proceedings against Saddam and his accomplices
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