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Saddam Hussein ordered the executing of more than 300,000 Shia Muslims in 1991 alone.
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∙ 14y agoAll kinds of terrible things. Mostly gassed them through chemical weapons. See the town of Halabja for example.
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How many Kurds were killed by Saddam Hussein in total?
Approximately 180,000.
What did Saddam Hussein to his people that was so bad?
Saddam Hussein killed many people for no reason . He also created genocide between the Kurds !
How did Saddam treat the ethnic kurds and religious shi'ites?
limited and controlled and even killed them.
What did Iraqi kurds and shiite Muslims want Saddam Hussein to do after the Persian gulf war?
Saddam Hussein had committed numerous atrocities against the Kurds and Shiites, including a genocide against the Kurds (called the Anfal Campaign). As a result they hated him and wanted to punish him. Unfortunately, they had to wait until 2006 to put him on trial for his crimes.
Was Saddam Hussein a genocidal leader?
Yes, he used chemicals to kill thousands of Kurds and others.
Why did Saddam Hussein kill people?
Saddam Hussein was a horrible person. He attacked nearly everyone who opposed his reign or was from outside of his Sunni Arab ethnic group. Saddam Hussein repressed the Sunni, Shiite, and Yazidi Kurds because they sought to have an independent country and gain equality with Arab Iraqis. Saddam Hussein preferred to maintain a discriminatory and prejudicial system.
Who oppressed the kurds?
The Kurds have faced oppression from various governments and groups throughout history, including the Ottoman Empire, Iraq under Saddam Hussein, Turkey, and Iran. This oppression has included cultural suppression, discrimination, forced displacements, and military crackdowns.
What were Saddam Hussein's reasons for killing the Kurds?
As a Sunni, Saddam Hussein was suspicious that the Shiite population of Iraq was sympathetic to Iran (an Shiite Islamic theocracy). The Sunnis and the Shiities have been at odds with each other for centuries (just as the Protestant and Catholic divisions continue in Northern Ireland).
What did Saddam do to get hang?
He was responsible for the death of two to three million of his own people. (Iraqis and Kurds) He was also a dictator. Meaning he took power over the country by force. -
Was Saddam gussein a good leader?
No, he was a dictator inIraqThis murderer used chemical weapons to remove Kurds in northern Iraq andapproximately, 5,000 women, men and children died.
Did Saddam Hussein torture his people?
Absolutely yes! He also caused to be killed many hundreds of thousands of Shia Moslems and Kurds. His 2 sons if anything, were more sadistic.
Why are ethnicities more visible in Iraq after Saddam Hussein was overthrown?
In the days of Saddam Hussein, Saddam, himself a member of the political ba'ath sect of Sunni Islam, viciously suppressed any kind of individualism in his Iraq. He attacked Shias in the south and east and Kurds in the north and any Sunnis that disagreed with his ways, and held his country together with an iron fist. Following the fall of Saddam, the Shia struck back against the minority Sunni for Saddam's oppression, who struck back at the Shia, who struck back at the Sunni, and the whole time the Kurdish north is wanting their independence from a mostly Arab south (less so in Iraq, however, as the primary Kurdish beef is with Turkey, where most Kurds live and where independence is most deeply sought).
