TIMELINE: Trials of former regime figures in Iraq

(Reuters) - Former commanders of Saddam Hussein's military go on trial in Baghdad on Tuesday for their role in crushing a Shi'ite rebellion in southern Iraq at the end of the 1991 Gulf War in which tens of thousands were killed.

Here is a chronology of trials of former regime figures in Iraq:

October 19, 2005 - Trial of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein opens. He is charged with crimes against humanity for the killing of 148 Shi'ite men after a 1982 assassination attempt against him in the town of Dujail. Pleads not guilty.

October 20 - Saadoun Janabi, lawyer for Awad al-Bander, former chief judge in Saddam's Revolutionary Court and one of Saddam's seven co-defendants, is seized from his office and killed.

November 8 - Gunmen fire on a car carrying defense lawyers Adil al-Zubeidi, who is killed, and Thamer Hamoud al-Khuzaie, who is wounded. Both were on the team defending Saddam's half-brother Barzan al-Tikriti and former Vice-President Taha Yassin Ramadan.

August 21, 2006 - Saddam's second trial begins. He refuses to plead to charges of war crimes and genocide against Kurds in what is known as the "Anfal" or "Spoils of War" campaign. Six others on trial include Saddam's cousin, Ali Hassan al-Majeed, known as "Chemical Ali".

September 19 - Mohammed al-Ureibi is appointed to take over the court after the government sacks chief judge Abdullah al-Amiri for saying that Saddam was not a dictator.

November 5 - Saddam is found guilty of crimes against humanity for the deaths in Dujail and sentenced to hang. Awad al-Bander and Barzan al-Tikriti are also sentenced to death. Taha Yassin Ramadan is sentenced to life imprisonment, but an appeals court later rules he should hang.

December 26 - Dujail verdicts are upheld by appeals court.

December 30 - Saddam Hussein is hanged.

January 15, 2007 - Barzan al-Tikriti and Awad al-Bander are hanged for crimes against humanity.

March 20 - Taha Yassin Ramadan is hanged.

June 24 - Ali Hassan al-Majeed, former defense Minister Sultan Hashim, and former army chief of staff Hussein Rasheed are sentenced to death in the Anfal case. Two others are sentenced to life in prison.

August 21 - Ali Hassan al-Majeed and 14 others go on trial for the suppression of a Shi'ite uprising in Iraq's south in 1991. Three of the defendants, including Majeed, have already been sentenced to death in the Anfal case.