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Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein was executed on 30 December 2006. [1] Saddam was sentenced to death by hanging, after being convicted of crimes against humanity by the Iraqi Special Tribunal for the Dujail massacre—the killing of 148 Iraqi Shi'ites in the town of Dujail—in 1982, in retaliation for an assassination attempt against him.
Saddam Hussein was not charged by the Iraqi Special Tribunal for crimes against humanity based on the events at Halabja. However, Iraqi prosecutors had "500 documented baskets of crimes during the Hussein regime" and Hussein was condemned to death based on just one case, the 1982 Dujail Massacre. [40]
Saddam Hussein is one of the recipients of the Key to the City. [263] [266] In 1980, Saddam Hussein was awarded a key to the city of Detroit after he donated almost half a million dollars to a church in the city. [267] The Ba'ath government led by Saddam Hussein successfully turned Iraq into a leading hub for healthcare and education. [268]
The 1979 Ba'ath Party Purge (Arabic: تطهير حزب البعث), also called the Comrades Massacre [1] [2] (Arabic: مجزرة الرفاق), was a public purge of the Iraqi Ba'ath Party orchestrated on 22 July 1979 by then-president Saddam Hussein [3] six days after his arrival to the presidency of the Iraqi Republic on 16 July 1979.
Under the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, Iraq's human rights record was considered one of the worst in the world. Secret police, state terrorism, torture, mass murder, genocide, ethnic cleansing, rape, deportations, extrajudicial killings, forced disappearances, assassinations, chemical warfare, and the destruction of the Mesopotamian marshes were some of the methods Saddam Hussein and the ...
Saddam Hussein cared more about his place in Iraq's history than the opinion of the citizenry he ruled over, said the former Federal Bureau of Investigation agent who led the interrogation of the ...
The Dujail massacre was a mass killing of Shiite rebels by the Ba'athist Iraqi government on 8 July 1982 in Dujail, Iraq.The massacre was committed in retaliation to an earlier assassination attempt by the Iranian-backed Islamic Dawa Party against the President of Iraq, Saddam Hussein.
However, entrenched JNA M-84s did defeat a counterattack by Croatian T-55 tanks, knocking out three. An M-84 knocked out in the Battle of Vukovar pictured late November 1991. Note the broken track.