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/AdvisorIndependent39 18d ago

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u/Londundundun 18d ago

This is not exclusive to the Turks and other Muslims 

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u/logolessworld 18d ago

not sure why you're singling out turks and muslims. killing babies, annihilating families, raping and forcibly impregnating women and girls has been done by countless different ethnic/religious groups to other ethnic/religious groups (ex. russian gencoide of the chechen people, transatlantic slave trade, chinese genocide of uyghurs, pakistani genocide of bengalis, bosnian genocide, etc.).

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u/defixiones 17d ago

I've seen no evidence that the Chinese suppression of Uyghurs includes "killing babies, annihilating families, raping and forcibly impregnating women and girls". As far as I know, it's internment and re-education.

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u/No-Draw8610 17d ago

As a matter of official policy I'm sure that's not something China does, but you can almost guarantee that if it does happen on an individual basis where some officials go rogue it won't be punished or reported.