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DATE: TUESDAY, April 16, 1991                   TAG: 9104160358
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-1   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: LUXEMBOURG                                LENGTH: Short

EUROPEANS URGE TRIAL FOR SADDAM

The European Community said Monday that Saddam Hussein is responsible for war crimes in the Persian Gulf conflict and urged the United Nations to begin proceedings against him.

Foreign ministers of the 12 EC nations agreed on the proposal by Germany's foreign minister, Hans-Dietrich Genscher. They also said a war trial of the Iraqi president should include charges of genocide against Iraq's Kurdish minority. Thousands of Kurds have fled northern Iraq after Saddam's army crushed their uprising.

Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jacques Poos, whose country holds the EC presidency, is scheduled to raise the issue of a war crimes trial with U.N. Secre-tary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar today, officials said.

In Washington, Barbara Bush Monday expressed her desire to see Saddam brought to trial and said she hopes he will be hanged. "He certainly is right up there with the people they tried . . . [after] World War II."

by CNB