Former Iraq tyrant Saddam Hussein was convicted today of crimes against humanity.
What is the reaction in Iraq?
Nouri al-Maliki, the Shiite prime minister, declared the verdicts as history's judgment on a whole era.
"The verdict placed on the heads of the former regime does not represent a verdict for any one person. It is a verdict on a whole dark era that has was unmatched in Iraq's history," al-malice said after the session.
Some feared the verdicts could intensify Iraq's sectarian violence after a trial that stretched over nine months in 39 sessions and ended nearly 3 1/2 months ago. Clashes immediately broke out Sunday in north Baghdad's heavily Sunni Azamiyah district. Elsewhere in the capital, celebratory gunfire rang out.
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