Saddam Hussein dies by hanging after Iraqi court convicts him of crimes

Category
Human Rights
Place
Iraq
Date
2006
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"Saddam Hussein, who ruled Iraq from 1979 to 2003, was hanged before dawn in the Baghdad district of Khadimiya in a building his own security services had previously used to carry out many executions in his name. He had been sentenced to death the previous November for the 1982 murder of 148 men and boys in the Shi'a town of Dujail." [Furtado: 1001 Days]

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