Word: halabja
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Saddam committed his first murder at fourteen. Saddam ordered the execution of 29 children whose parents were political activists. Saddam ordered the genocidal murder with poison gas of 8000 Kurds in the town of Halabja. Saddam kidnapped over 90 members of his own dissident family, and more than 20 have been executed. Saddam executed 600 members of a Shiite opposition group in 1984. To compare Saddam Hussein to the noble Saladin would be a gross affront to Islam. To fail to oppose him would be nothing short of criminal...
...have become accustomed to Saddam's cruel brand of justice, which sanctions men's killing adulterous mothers, wives or daughters. Known as the "Butcher of Baghdad," Saddam lived up to his name in March 1988 when his military dropped chemical bombs on Kurds in the northern Iraqi town of Halabja, killing hundreds of people...