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What was the nature of Saddam Hussein's rule in Iraq?

Place yourself in Iraq during the time of Saddam Hussein's rule. Construct a journal entry in which you describe life under Hussein's rule.

This is a creative fictional piece but your ideas should be informed by real historical facts of the nature of Saddam Hussein's rule in Iraq.

You must provide at least 3 historical facts in your writing. Your journal entry must be between 250 and 500 words.

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He was waging war on his own people

-The Kurds (20% of the population) in the oil-rich north wanted independence

-Saddam was prepared to use methods of exceptional brutality and ruthlessness to solve this

-Campaigns against the Kurds were most ferocious between 1987 and 1988 and again in 1991

-Saddam destroyed half of Kurdistan's villages and towns, killed thousands of Kurds using mustard gas and cyanide, and displaced more than a million people

-many fled to Iran or Turkey while others were housed in concentration camps located in the Iraqi desert

-On of the most appalling attacks took place against the town of Halabja in March 1988

-Iraqi planes spread poison gas over the area killing 5,000 mean, women and children while inflicting injuries on another 10,000

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