BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The gruesome testimony in Saddam Hussein's genocide trial in Baghdad is over until next month.
The judge adjourned the proceedings until Sept. 11 after four more survivors testified to the 1980s chemical attacks that burned and blinded Kurdish villagers. Tens of thousands were reported killed in the military campaign.
One victim testified that the attacks seemed impossible to escape; that even when she and her children fled to the hills on mules, helicopters chased and bombed them.
The judge now said he'll give the defense team representing Saddam and six others time to argue a new appeal that challenges the legitimacy of the court.
The charges of genocide and crimes against humanity could carry sentences of death by hanging.
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