Empty chair as 'Saddam' trial resumes

All eyes will be on the empty chair in the dock when the genocide trial of the ousted Iraqi leadership resumes in Baghdad.

Nine days after Saddam Hussein was hanged, the former president's cousin "Chemical Ali" Hassan al-Majeed and six other Baath party officials are back in court accused of trying to wipe out Iraq's ethnic Kurds in the northern mountains in 1988.

Many Kurds regret the chief suspect can no longer face justice for his role in the Anfal campaign against them, thanks to an earlier trial for crimes against humanity for killing Shi'ites - but they hope others share his fate on the gallows.

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