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Dujail (
Arabic:
الدجيل; alternate spelling:
Ad Dujayl) is a small
Shiite town in northern
Iraq. It is situated about 65 kilometers (40 miles) north of Iraq's capital,
Baghdad, and has approximately 10,000 inhabitants. It is the site of the
Dujail Massacre.
Assassination attempt and reprisals
Dujail was the site of an unsuccessful
assassination attempt against then
Iraqi president,
Saddam Hussein, on
July 8,
1982. The town was a stronghold of the Shiite
Dawa Party, a group strongly opposed to Saddam Hussein and
his war with Iran. Saddam Hussein was visiting the town to make a speech praising those who had served Iraq in the fight against
Iran. While driving through the village centre, his motorcade was attacked by one or more members of the Dawa Party. The president was unharmed in the three-hour firefight which ensued.
Saddam Hussein ordered his special security and military forces to carry out a reprisal attack against the town, which resulted in a total of 148 of the town's men being killed in the attack or executed later, some as young as 13 years of age. 1,500 people were also
incarcerated and
tortured, while other residents, many of them women and children, were sent to desert camps. Saddam's regime destroyed the town and then rebuilt it shortly after. In addition to these punishments, 1,000 square kilometres (250,000 acres) of farmland was destroyed; replanting was only permitted 10 years later.
A resident of Dujail recalled the incident at
Hussein's trial in December 2005, stating that he'd witnessed Baathist torture and murder in the government reprisal, including the murders of 7 of his 10 brothers. The executions in Dujail were the primary charges for which
Saddam Hussein was
executed by hanging on
December 30,
2006.
Barzan Hassan, Hussein's half-brother and former Iraqi intelligence chief, and
Awad Bandar, former head of Iraq's Revolutionary Court, were hanged on
January 15,
2007 for their parts in the massacre. Later,
Taha Yassin Ramadan, Saddam's former deputy and former vice-president (originally sentenced to life in prison but later to death by hanging), was likewise executed on
March 20,
2007, the fourth and last man in the al-Dujail trial to die by hanging for crimes against humanity.
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