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The 1979 Ba'ath Party Purge (Arabic: تطهير حزب البعث), also called the Comrades Massacre[ 1 ][ 2 ] (Arabic: مجزرة الرفاق), was a public purge of the Iraqi Ba'ath Party orchestrated on 22 July 1979 by then-president Saddam Hussein [ 3 ] six days after his arrival to the presidency of the Iraqi Republic on 16 July 1979 ...
In 1979, Jacob Yasso of Sacred Heart Chaldean Church in Detroit, Michigan congratulated Saddam Hussein on his presidency. In return, Yasso said that Saddam Hussein donated US$250,000 to his church, which is made up of at least 1,200 families of Middle Eastern descent.
- He was born a peasant. Saddam was born in 1937 to a peasant family near Tikrit in northern Iraq. The area in which he grew up was one of the poorest in the country.
- He dropped out of law school twice. In 1957, after three years of studying, Saddam dropped out of an Iraqi law school to join the revolutionary pan-Arab Ba’ath Party which was supported by his uncle.
- He fled on a donkey to Syria whilst wounded. After Saddam and the Ba'ath Party failed to assassinate the Iraqi Prime Minister Abd al-Karim Qasim in 1959, Saddam fled the country by riding on a donkey to Syria for 300 miles.
- He married his first cousin. In an arranged marriage, Saddam married his first cousin Sajida Talfah in 1963. The arrangement was said to have been made when they were both children and they had three daughters and two sons.
Purge at Al-Khuld Hall, 22nd July 1979. The new President Saddam Hussein has called a conference for his comrades. He’s on a stage, sitting back, the table in front of him holds microphones. He’s calm, smiling, smoking a Cuban cigar. The video camera rolls.
- A Totalitarian Regime
- Political Implications
- End of The Saddam Era
Though this infamous party conference happened 40 years ago, it remains one of the most shocking episodes of violence in Iraq’s history, marking the beginning of Saddam’s 24 years of absolute power. There were comparisons with Joseph Stalin, due to the way he moulded the Iraqi political structure into a one-party system, ruled by a small elite comp...
The purge shaped Saddam’s image as a ruthless dictator who would not tolerate any form of dissent. His Ba’ath ideology of Arab unity, freedom and socialism, and the struggle against imperialism and Zionism was nothing but a sham political agenda. He soon instilled a climate of fear and perpetrated torture, kidnapping and mass murder, as well as cri...
The imposed economic sanctions lasted until the end of Saddam’s regime in 2003, dramatically weakening his position and the Ba’ath party’s grip on Iraq. Although his regime was in its last stages by the late 1990s, the US government chose to launch “a pre-emptive, self-defence war” against Iraq, aiming to overthrow him. With the 2003 execution of S...
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Jul 22, 2021 · The 1979 Saddam Hussein coup d'état in Iraq. Exactly 42 years ago, on July 22, 1979, vice-president of Saddam Hussein staged a coup and took over the reins from President Hassan al-Bakr.
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Oct 7, 2024 · Saddam began to assert open control of the government in 1979 and became president upon Bakr’s resignation. He then became chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council and prime minister, among other positions.
