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After months of speculation, the government of Iraq announced on September 5, 2005, that the
long-awaited trials of Saddam Hussein and his close associates would open on October 19, 2005.
Held by the Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal (SICT) these trials will be of great importance to
hundreds of thousands of victims of Iraq’s former Ba‘athist regime, while potentially offering
hope to victims across the Middle E #pdf