An Iraqi woman kisses the tomb of execut...

Awja, IRAQ: An Iraqi woman kisses the tomb of executed former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in the northern Iraqi village of Awja, 28 April 2007. In another reminder of the gulf that divides their warring communities, Iraqis remembered Saddam Hussein's era today at two starkly different ceremonies. One honoured the memory of the former dictator, another laid more of his victims to rest. In the small northern village of Awja, where Saddam was buried after his execution in December, a crowd of 200 Sunni Iraqis, mostly young children, laid a wreath on his tomb in honour of his birthday. Meanwhile, in central Iraq's Shiite holy city of Karbala, about 40 officials and clerics gathered to rebury the remains of 61 victims of Saddam's brutal crackdown of the Shiite rebellion that followed the 1991 Gulf War. AFP PHOTO/DIA HAMID (Photo credit should read DIA HAMID/AFP via Getty Images)