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BAGHDAD, April 29 (UPI) -- Tariq Aziz, Ali Hassan "Chemical Ali" al-Majid and others were in court Tuesday, on trial for their alleged roles in the execution of 42 merchants in 1992.
Majid wasn't planning to attend the trial that began Tuesday because of health issues, an Iraqi government official told CNN.
Aziz and seven other former members of Saddam Hussein's regime are on trial for their alleged involvement in the executions of merchants accused of hiking food prices when Iraq was under international sanctions.
Majid already is on death row, convicted last year of leading the bloody campaign in the 1980s in which tens of thousands of Iraqi Kurds were killed.
Aziz's son, Ziad, told the BBC his father is innocent.
"My father told me personally that he had nothing to do with this case. At the time, my father was on an official assignment outside of Iraq," he said.
Presiding is Judge Rauf Rasheed Abdel Rahman, an Iraqi Kurd, who was the judge who sentenced Saddam to death. Saddam was executed in December 2006 following his conviction of crimes against humanity for the killing of 148 Shiite men and boys after an assassination attempt against him.
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