Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein surprised everyone when he took full responsibility for part of the crimes committed against residents in the Doujaïl region (north of Baghdad) as revenge for the failed coup attempt against him in 1982. On March 1 during the fourteenth day of his trial, Saddam confirmed that he alone decided to raze the farms belonging to Shiites accused of trying to kill him, who were subsequently executed. "I am Saddam Hussein. I was in charge, and just because things have changed, I am not going to say someone else was responsible", he told the court.