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  2. Trial of Saddam Hussein - Wikipedia

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    The trial of Saddam Hussein was the trial of the deposed President of Iraq Saddam Hussein by the Iraqi Interim Government for crimes against humanity during his time in office. The Coalition Provisional Authority voted to create the Iraqi Special Tribunal (IST), consisting of five Iraqi judges, on 9 December 2003, to try Saddam and his aides ...

  3. Saddam Hussein - Wikipedia

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    Gulf War. 1991 Iraqi uprisings. Iraqi no-fly zones conflict. Iraq War. Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti [c] (28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was an Iraqi politician and revolutionary who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 1979 to 2003. He also served as prime minister of Iraq from 1979 to 1991 and later from 1994 to 2003.

  4. Capture of Saddam Hussein - Wikipedia

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    Samir, a 34-year-old Iraqi-American military interpreter who helped find Saddam and pull him from his hideaway in December 2003. /  34.47278°N 43.78139°E  / 34.47278; 43.78139. Saddam Hussein, the deposed president of Iraq, was captured by the United States military in the town of Ad-Dawr, Iraq on 13 December 2003.

  5. Human rights in Ba'athist Iraq - Wikipedia

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    The list was used by the Bush Administration to help argue that the 2003 Iraq war was against Saddam Hussein and the Baath Party leadership, rather than against the Iraqi people. The members are: Saddam Hussein (1937–2006), Iraqi President, responsible for many torturings, killings and of ordering the 1988 cleansing of Kurds in Northern Iraq.

  6. Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse - Wikipedia

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    Abu Ghraib prison. The Abu Ghraib prison in the town of Abu Ghraib was one of the most notorious prisons in Iraq during the government of Saddam Hussein. The prison was used to hold approximately 50,000 men and women in poor conditions, and torture and execution were frequent. [22]

  7. List of people indicted in the International Criminal Court

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    Abdel Rahim Hussein was indicted on 1 March 2012 on 13 counts of crimes against humanity and six counts of war crimes with regard to the situation in Darfur, Sudan. As the Minister of the Interior and Special Representative of the President to Darfur, Hussein is alleged to have contributed to the organization and command of government and ...

  8. Execution of Saddam Hussein - Wikipedia

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    The execution of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein took place on 30 December 2006. Saddam was sentenced to death by hanging, after being convicted of crimes against humanity by the Iraqi Special Tribunal for the Dujail massacre —the killing of 148 Iraqi Shi'ites in the town of Dujail —in 1982, in retaliation for an assassination attempt ...

  9. Halabja massacre - Wikipedia

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    The Halabja massacre (Kurdish: کیمیابارانی ھەڵەبجە Kêmyabarana Helebce), also known as the Halabja chemical attack, was a massacre of Kurdish people that took place on 16 March 1988 that was led by Saddam Hussein's cousin Ali Hasan Majeed, during the Iraqi–Kurdish conflict in the closing days of the Iran–Iraq War in Halabja, Kurdistan, Iraq.