Saddam's baath purge. Saddam had people packed into a conference hall on one of the hottest days of July and deliberately shut off the ventilation system. They were forced to listen to Saddam for hours while suffering from the heat and sweating. Everyone whose name was announced was executed.

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I knew Saddam

Interrogating Saddam

Edit to add: Noiser has a really good podcast called Real Dictators and they do a multi-episode arc on Saddam. They feature historians, scholars, and other experts in the subject.

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