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Saddam's sons buried next to him
13/03/2007 22:42 - (SA)
Tikrit - The remains of Saddam Hussein's two sons were exhumed and reburied next to the executed ex-president in a hall in their home village of Awjah in northern Iraq on Tuesday, said a relative.
Uday and Qusay, killed by US troops in Mosul in July 2003, were earlier buried in a cemetery in the village, just outside the city of Tikrit.
"But today we dug up their remains and reburied them next to Saddam Hussein in the hall where he was laid to rest," the relative said on condition of anonymity.
Saddam was buried on December 31 after his hanging for crimes against humanity.
The hall where the three are buried used to be a gathering place for condolence meetings under the ousted regime.
Two former Saddam henchmen, Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Ahmed al-Bandar, were buried outside the hall in a garden after they followed their former boss to the gallows a few weeks later.
All three were sentenced to death for crimes against humanity in the killing of 148 Shi'ite civilians from Dujail, north of Baghdad, following an abortive 1982 assassination attempt against the then president.
- AFP
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