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Dujail Massacre

1982 CE · Iraq, Asia · War

The Dujail massacre was the mass killing of Shia civilians by the Ba'athist Iraqi government on 8 July 1982 in Dujail, Iraq. The massacre 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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