Full name Saddam Hussein al-Majid al-Tikriti. ... No reliable figures for the number of Iraqi dissidents and Shia Muslims killed during Saddam's reign, though estimates put the figure between 60,000 and 150,000. (Mass graves discovered following the US occupation of Iraq in 2003 suggest that the total combined figure for Kurds,
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Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti (Arabic: Ṣaddām Ḥusayn ʿAbd al-Majīd al-Tikrītī 28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was the President of Iraq from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003.[http //ww...
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Iraq under Saddam Hussein had high levels of torture and mass murder. Secret police, torture, murders, deportations, forced disappearances, targeted assassinations, chemical weapons, and the destructi...
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Saddam Hussein, the president of Iraq from 1979 until 2003, ... Saddam Hussein's cousin, Ali Hassan al-Majid was directly in charge of the chemical attacks against the Kurds, ... As supposed punishment for supporting the Shiite rebellion in 1991, Saddam Hussein's regime killed thousands of Marsh Arabs, bulldozed their villages,
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The number of Kurds who died in 1991--killed by Saddam's forces or fleeing them--is estimated at 50,000 to 80,000. This range would have been much higher, except that the Gulf War Allies intervened in Iraq's north in response to the massive flow of desperate Kurdish refugees escaping the regime's onslaught.
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During that period at least 100,000 Kurds were killed in Saddam Hussein's policy of ethnic cleansing in Iraq. ... Meanwhile, more discoveries throwing light on the extent of the Baath party's grip on society under Saddam Hussein have emerged in Iraq's second city, Basra.
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The United Nations is estimating about sixty-six hundred Iraqi civilians were killed in July and August. ... The BBC is reporting it has obtained proof that Israelis have been giving military training to Kurds in northern Iraq. The evidence shows Israeli experts training Kurdish soldiers ... Saddam Hussein Ousted From Courtroom...
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President Bush used his Saturday radio address to reiterate the threat he says is posed by Saddam Hussein, on the 15th anniversary of a chemical attack on the Kurds of northern Iraq that killed thousands. ... Those killed included 5,000 who reportedly died in the 1988 attack on Halabja, home to about 80,000 Kurds.
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SULAIMANIYA, Iraq, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Sarwa Omar, a 26-year-old Iraqi Kurdish housekeeper whose father died in Kurdistan's killing fields in the 1980s, cried tears of anger when Saddam Hussein was hanged last week. ... Some Kurds said Saddam's execution on Dec. 30 for crimes against humanity in the killing of 148 Shi...
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Based on publicly available information, the facts contained in this report demonstrate that under the regime of Saddam Hussein, Iraq continues to repress its people, ... Local officials in the south have ordered the arrest of any official or citizen who provides employment, food or shelter to newly arriving Kurds.
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