Dujail
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| Coordinates | 33 ° 51 ' N , 44 ° 14' E | ||
| Country |
 Iraq
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| Governorate | Salah ad-Din | ||
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| height | 43 m | ||
| Residents | 10,000 | ||
Dujail (or Dujail , Arabic الدجيل, DMG ad-Duǧail ) is a Shiite village in northern Iraq with around 10,000 inhabitants. It is located around 65 kilometers north of Baghdad . After a failed assassination attempt on Saddam Hussein on July 8, 1982, 148 inhabitants of the village were kidnapped and killed by government troops in the "Dudschail massacre" .
The Dujail massacre
Dujail was the site of the unsuccessful attempt to assassinate the former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein on July 8, 1982. The village was a fortress of the Shiite - Islamic Dawa party , a resistance group against Saddam Hussein and the Iran-Iraq war . Saddam Hussein was visiting to deliver a speech for the soldiers who had served in this war.
He was after visiting a mosque on the way to the center of the village when the convoy of the dictator was attacked. The bodyguards opened fire on the attackers, killing two children. The next day, more than 600 villagers, including women, children and old people, were arrested by government forces and taken to the secret police prison in Baghdad, 148 of whom were never seen again. Their bodies have disappeared to this day. Farms and orchards were destroyed or expropriated, and the remaining residents had to leave the village for four years.
The massacre was the first of twelve charges against the former dictator and seven other defendants. On November 5, 2006, Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death by hanging and executed on December 30, 2006. The other charges were not dealt with. In addition to Saddam, Taha Yassin Ramadan , a former vice-president of Iraq, Barzan Ibrahim at-Tikriti , a younger half-brother of Saddam and at the same time former director of the Mukhabarat security service, and Awad al-Bandar , who was chairman of the “Revolutionary Court” for the death sentences, were also represented was responsible in Dujail, sentenced to death for the massacre and hanged .
2008 bomb attack
On September 12, 2008 at around 6:00 p.m. local time, a suicide bomber blew himself up in Dujail. He drove a car loaded with explosives into a police station and murdered 31 people. 60 people were injured. A nearby clinic was affected The US military blamed al-Qaeda as the perpetrator of the attack.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Death Sentence for Saddam: The Dujail Massacre. Spiegel Online , November 5, 2006, accessed June 21, 2012 .
- ↑ 31 Killed in Car Bomb Attack on Iraq Shiite Enclave . In: The New York Times . September 12, 2008. Retrieved September 28, 2010.
- ↑ At least 30 die, 45 wounded in Dujail car bombing . CNN. September 12, 2008. Archived from the original on September 8, 2010. Retrieved September 28, 2010.
- ^ 'Many killed' in Iraq car bombing . BBC. September 12, 2010. Retrieved September 28, 2010.
- ^ Bombing Near Police Station Kills 23 in Iraq . In: The Washington Post . September 13, 2008. Retrieved September 28, 2010.
- ↑ US military blames Iraq suicide attack on Al-Qaeda . Khaleej Times. September 13, 2008. Archived from the original on September 28, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 28, 2010.
