What the records say
- When
- 8 Jul 1982
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 142
- Coordinates
- 33.84° N, 44.25° E
- Description
- Iraqi massacre
Dujail massacre
1982 mass killing in Dujail, Iraq
The Dujail massacre was the mass killing of Shia civilians by the Ba'athist Iraqi government between 8 July 1982 and 1985 in Dujail in Iraq. The mass killing was committed in retaliation for an assassination attempt by the Iranian-backed Islamic Dawa Party on the President of Iraq, Saddam Hussein.
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- Wikipedia year pages (Turkish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “İslami Davet Partisi'nin Irak devlet başkanı Saddam Hüseyin'e karşı gerçekleştirdiği suikast girişimine misilleme olarak Irak güçleri Düceyil'e girip 145…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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