These included the slaughter of Shias in the town of Dujail and the Halabja massacre, in which he used chemical weapons against a Kurdish town that dared to rise against him. Families of victims celebrated his death, while other Iraqis felt deeply saddened by the jarring footage of a vulnerable man who once was the president of their country.
A number of Iraqis, many of whom were children in , spoke to CNN about their memories and feelings on the day Hussein was executed 10 years ago. Read More. Amina Ahmad, Ahmad was in her home in Mosul when Saddam Hussein was executed. While she believed the deposed leader was a dictator, she felt that his hanging was a punishment for all of Iraqis.
This is what she remembers from the day Saddam was executed:. I was young. I had no interest in politics. I surely felt very sad. I started crying because it wasn't about Saddam himself but I felt they executed Iraq.
I know that Saddam Hussein was a dictator to be honest, but he represented Iraq, he was the president of Iraq. When other countries come in and take [Saddam] down and then they execute him, you feel like that's it, Iraq is done. They executed the president, he represents your country and they kind of humiliated your country.
It was the same feeling [I got] when the US army came to Baghdad. There was big statue of Saddam. One of the US soldiers wiped Saddam's face with the American flag and took it down. All of us were like ' who is this person to take the statue down? This is our country, this is our own business. I know we were living under a dictator, but we didn't ask anyone to come and do this damage to our country.
First, we were afraid of only one person, [Saddam]. If you don't talk bad about him or his family, then you are safe. After that it was a complete chaos. 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.
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