15 years ago, Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was hanged

Liputan6.com, Baghdad – On the morning of the Eid al-Adha celebrations on December 30, 2006, Saddam Hussein was hanged to death for committing crimes against humanity.

This is a day that will forever be etched in the memory of the Iraqi people who watched their ruthless leader walk towards a gallows and a rope tied around his neck.

Saddam Hussein, who ruled Iraq from 1979 until his overthrow and capture by the US-led coalition in 2003, is accused by Iraqi courts of carrying out numerous massacres during his reign. CNN, Thursday (30/12/2021).

These include the 1982 Shia massacre in Dujail City and the 1988 Halabja massacre.

Saddam Hussein at that time used chemical weapons against Kurdish cities that dared to rise up against him.

The victim’s family celebrates his death, while the residents Iraq others felt very sad because their president was sentenced to death.

Previously, After spending nine months on the run, former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was arrested on December 13, 2003.

Saddam Hussein’s downfall began on March 20, 2003, when United States of America led an invasion force into Iraq to overthrow his government, which had ruled the country for more than 20 years.

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About Saddam Hussein

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Saddam Hussein. (AFP)

Saddam Hussein was born to a poor family in Tikrit, 100 miles outside Baghdad, in 1937. After moving to Baghdad as a teenager, Saddam joined the Baath party he would later lead.

He participated in several coup attempts, eventually helping to install his cousin as Iraq’s dictator in July 1968. Saddam took over for his cousin 11 years later.

During his 24 years in office, Saddam’s secret police, accused of protecting his power, terrorized society, ignoring the rights of citizens.

While many of his subjects faced poverty, he lived in extraordinary luxury, building more than 20 lavish palaces across the country. Obsessed with security, he is said to frequently move between them, always sleeping in secret locations.

In the early 1980s, Saddam Hussein involved his country in an eight-year war with Iran, which is estimated to have claimed more than a million lives on both sides.

He is alleged to have used nerve gas and mustard gas on Iranian soldiers during the conflict, as well as chemical weapons on Iraq’s own Kurdish population in northern Iraq in 1988.

After he invaded Kuwait in 1990, the US-led coalition invaded Iraq in 1991, forcing the Iraqi army to abandon its smaller neighbour, but failing to remove Saddam Hussein from power.

And throughout the 1990s, Saddam faced UN economic sanctions and air strikes aimed at crippling his ability to produce chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons.