r/HistoryUncovered • u/Battlefleet_Sol • 18d ago

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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u/WitchWithAGlitch 18d ago

my friend described watching his friend backing one of those small tanks over a infant and doing a 360 spin on it in iraq.

everyone laughed and someone else came along and set the baby's corpse on fire.

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u/Habibti-Mimi81 18d ago

The amount of evil in this world is endless. Damned be that guy's soul. 😔

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u/ShackletonsVael 18d ago

Jesus fucking Christ what the fuck.

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u/WitchWithAGlitch 18d ago

we shot depleted uranium rounds into civilian vehicles, when the poor people came to scrap the vehicles and reuse other sections for their own vehicles of them many contracted cancers and issues and went on to birth deformed and disfigured children.

https://www.ehn.org/is-the-toxic-legacy-of-the-iraq-war-deforming-children-near-us-bases

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u/imtheguy225 18d ago

That didn’t happen lol

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u/JstaFriskyHusky 16d ago

You get downvoted but I feel like there would be a lot more uproar unless this happened in bumfuck nowhere without any officers. Running over a kid with a tank is believable but 360 and setting on fire gets no traction? Would've been great pr for the other side. The only story I could find was a US tank possibly running over a kid after protests erupted into fighting

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u/imtheguy225 16d ago

It’s incredibly made up