Not in that way that was shown on Iraqi TV on that day. At that moment you remember the people who suffered from Saddam Hussein I was from a family that did not have any relations to the politics So, there were tears in the family, there was crying. An Iraqi policeman watches a broadcast of Saddam Hussein moments before his execution.
Surood Ahmad, On that day in Ahmad, a Kurdish human rights activist, was in Halabja, the city that Saddam had hit with chemical weapons. She says people on the day felt they received retribution for the suffering they endured, but that she was shocked by how the media showed Saddam's death. As a human rights defender and as a member of the [Kurdish community], it hurts me to talk about this because I was one of the people displaced during the Saddam regime.
I lost three members of my family. On the other hand, now when I look at the community and how it was before compared to now -- In the past we had one enemy, but now we have a hundred enemies and we don't know who our enemies are. But what we are cultivating now is from [Saddam], because he planted this during his period. He created hate between the Shia and the Arabs and the Sunnis and he brought the Arabs to kill the Kurdish people, and brought the Sunnis to kill the Shias.
This was his long-term plan. I didn't like the way they [sentenced Saddam] and the way they hanged him. Despite all what I went through I didn't like how the media showed his [execution]. He was our leader for a while. Unfortunately on that day I was in Halabja, the city [where people were gassed] by chemical weapons. I saw people were so glad. They were so happy because they felt they got back their right on that day.
I also went to Sulaymaniyah [another Kurdish area] on that day, and people were having a party. But personally I was shocked by it. Women in a makeshift hospital in Tehran recover from injuries sustained in the March chemical-warfare attack on Halabja. Nivene, Nivene, a Catholic Christian from Baghdad, was 18 when Saddam was executed. She left Iraq two years later, in , and now lives in New Hampshire. She did not want her last name published. I was home I didn't go anywhere.
When he got executed we basically all watched it on the TV. We actually weren't happy about his execution. When they aired it on TV, they didn't air the whole thing Saddam's half brother, Barzan Ibrahim, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, head of Iraq's Revolutionary Court in , were convicted of similar charges as well.
The verdict and sentencing were both appealed but subsequently affirmed by Iraq's Supreme Court of Appeals. On 30 December , Saddam was hanged. Saddam Hussein. Most Recent. The kingmaker Margaret Beaufort: Mother of the Tudor dynasty. Black History. Lesser known facts about The Battle of the Somme. A history of the poppy: Why we wear them as a symbol of remembrance and other facts. Castro vs Batista: the rebellion which changed the world Battles. Birth of the Vikings Vikings. During that same time, however, Saddam helped develop Iraq's first chemical weapons program and, to guard against coups, created a powerful security apparatus, which included both Ba'athist paramilitary groups and the People's Army, and which frequently used torture, rape and assassination to achieve its goals.
In , when al-Bakr attempted to unite Iraq and Syria, in a move that would have left Saddam effectively powerless, Saddam forced al-Bakr to resign, and on July 16, , Saddam became president of Iraq. Less than a week later, he called an assembly of the Ba'ath Party. During the meeting, a list of 68 names was read out loud, and each person on the list was promptly arrested and removed from the room.
Of those 68, all were tried and found guilty of treason and 22 were sentenced to death. By early August , hundreds of Saddam's political foes had been executed.
The same year that Saddam ascended to the presidency, Ayatollah Khomeini led a successful Islamic revolution in Iraq's neighbor to the northeast, Iran. Saddam, whose political power rested in part upon the support of Iraq's minority Sunni population, worried that developments in Shi-ite majority Iran could lead to a similar uprising in Iraq.
In response, on September 22, , Saddam ordered Iraqi forces to invade the oil-rich region of Khuzestan in Iran. The conflict soon blossomed into an all-out war, but Western nations and much of the Arab world, fearful of the spread of Islamic radicalism and what it would mean to the region and the world, laid their support firmly behind Saddam, despite the fact that his invasion of Iran clearly violated international law.
During the conflict, these same fears would cause the international community to essentially ignore Iraq's use of chemical weapons, its genocidal dealing with its Kurdish population and its burgeoning nuclear program. On August 20, , after years of intense conflict that left hundreds of thousands dead on both sides, a ceasefire agreement was finally reached. In the aftermath of the conflict, seeking a means of revitalizing Iraq's war-ravaged economy and infrastructure, at the end of the s, Saddam turned his attention toward Iraq's wealthy neighbor, Kuwait.
Using the justification that it was a historical part of Iraq, on August 2, , Saddam ordered the invasion of Kuwait. A UN Security Council resolution was promptly passed, imposing economic sanctions on Iraq and setting a deadline by which Iraqi forces must leave Kuwait.
When the January 15, deadline was ignored, a UN coalition force headed by the United States confronted Iraqi forces, and a mere six weeks later, had driven them from Kuwait. A ceasefire agreement was signed, the terms of which included Iraq dismantling its germ and chemical weapons programs. The previously imposed economic sanctions levied against Iraq remained in place.
Despite this and the fact that his military had suffered a crushing defeat, Saddam claimed victory in the conflict. The Gulf War's resulting economic hardships further divided an already fractured Iraqi population. During the s, various Shi-ite and Kurdish uprisings occurred, but the rest of the world, fearing another war, Kurdish independence in the case of Turkey or the spread of Islamic fundamentalism did little or nothing to support these rebellions, and they were ultimately crushed by Saddam's increasingly repressive security forces.
At the same time, Iraq remained under intense international scrutiny as well. In , when Iraqi forces violated a no-fly zone imposed by the United Nations, the United States launched a damaging missile attack on Baghdad.
In , further violations of the no-fly zones and Iraq's alleged continuation of its weapons programs led to further missile strikes on Iraq, which would occur intermittently until February Members of the Bush administration had suspected that the Hussein government had a relationship with Osama bin Laden 's al Qaeda organization. In his January State of the Union address, U.
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