What the records say
- When
- 1950s – 2003
- Kind
- Expulsion or deportation
- Coordinates
- 31.04° N, 47.02° E
- Description
- Saddam Hussein's campaigns to drain marshes and force population transfer
Draining of the Mesopotamian Marshes
Saddam Hussein's campaigns to drain marshes and force population transfer
The Mesopotamian Marshes were drained in Iraq and to a smaller degree in Iran between the 1950s and 1990s to clear large areas of the marshes in the Tigris-Euphrates river system. The marshes formerly covered an area of around 20,000 km2 (7,700 mi2). The main sub-marshes, the Hawizeh, Central, and Hammar marshes, were drained at different times for different reasons.
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