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1979 Ba'ath Party Purge
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The 1979 Ba'ath Party Purge `, also called the Comrades Massacre, was a public purge of the Iraqi Ba'ath Party orchestrated on 22 July 1979 by then-president Saddam Hussein six days after his arrival to the presidency of the Iraqi Republic on 16 July 1979.
Syrian president Hafiz al-Assad (centre) with Iraqi vice president Saddam Hussein (left), Algerian foreign minister Abdelaziz Bouteflika (right), and
Syrian president Hafiz al-Assad (centre) with Iraqi vice president Saddam Hussein (left), Algerian foreign minister Abdelaziz Bouteflika (right), and Syrian vice president Abdul Halim Khaddam (far right, half-covered) at the 1978 Arab League summit in Baghdad.
Joint meeting of the Revolutionary Command Council (RCC) and the Regional Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party in Baghdad – Iraq, on 16 June 198
Joint meeting of the Revolutionary Command Council (RCC) and the Regional Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party in Baghdad – Iraq, on 16 June 1988, presided by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein; on his right side is RCC deputy chairman Izzat Ibrahim ad-Duri.
Muhyi Abdul-Hussein Mashhadi talking during purge.
Muhyi Abdul-Hussein Mashhadi talking during purge.
Saddam Hussein
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Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was an Iraqi politician and revolutionary who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 1979 to 2003. He also served as prime minister of Iraq from 1979 to 1991 and later from 1994 to 2003. He was a leading member of the revolutionary Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party and later the Baghdad-based Ba'ath Party and its regional organization, the Iraqi Ba'ath Party, which espoused Ba'athism, a mix of Arab nationalism and Arab socialism.
Saddam in his youth, late 1950s
Saddam in his youth, late 1950s
Saddam Hussein and the Ba'ath Party student cell, Cairo, in the period 1959–1963
Saddam Hussein and the Ba'ath Party student cell, Cairo, in the period 1959–1963
Saddam, back in Iraq, and other Ba'athists posing on top of a tank after the successful Ba'athist coup in February 1963
Saddam, back in Iraq, and other Ba'athists posing on top of a tank after the successful Ba'athist coup in February 1963
President of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, in military uniform
President of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, in military uniform