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The next round of charges expected to be on the agenda will involve the Anfal campaign, the Saddam government's campaign against the Kurds.
CNN: Officials: Saddam trial on track
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Saddam is currently on trial for the deaths of tens of thousands of Kurds during the so-called Anfal campaign during the late 1980's.
NPR: Saddam Ordered to Hang for Deaths in Iraqi Village
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Those charges implicated him in the killings of up to 100, 000 Kurds during the 1988 Anfal campaign against Kurdish rebels -- a campaign that included the use of poison gas against Kurdish towns in northern Iraq.
CNN: Tour of prison reveals the last days of Saddam Hussein
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Both the Anfal campaign and the Halabja attack, which coincided in 1988, until now, this trauma has shaped the Kurdish posture in modern Iraq to the extent that they are trying to use the current situation to maximize their future possibility of succeeding from Iraq.
NPR: Saddam's Past with U.S. Has Implications for Iraq
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The al-Anfal was a campaign against the Kurds that unfolded in stages in the late 80s.
NPR: Iraq Set to Hang Three from Saddam Era
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The campaign, known as Anfal in Arabic, was intended to eradicate Kurdish fighters and civilians from Kurdistan.
NPR: A Lethal First Chapter in Iraq's Gas Attacks
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The attack on Halabja was part of a wider campaign known as "Anfal" in which tens of thousands of Iraqis were killed by their own government.
BBC: Iraqi Kurds mark 25 years since Halabja gas attack
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The campaign, which is called Anfal, meaning the spoils, that cleared and depopulated northern Iraq and killed tens of thousands of people - this is such a live memory.
NPR: Saddam's Past with U.S. Has Implications for Iraq