Saddam and Dijeel

"Al-Dijeel is an area north of Baghdad in which Saddam was exposed to an assassination in 1982. It is an agricultural area with plenty of fruits and palm trees gardens. While SH was passing with his covey cars through the area, brave youths from this Shiite populated region, intercepted and attacked him with their rifles and guns from the orchards. Some of his guards killed and he was wounded.

Within few hours later the bulldozers, helicopters and tanks wiped out the area and turned the most beautiful gardens and houses into a desert. Hundreds of families were arrested indiscriminately. The operation was carried out by his half brother Barzan Tikriti. Many peoples died under tortures and the others disappeared until this moment. Those who were executed were children, old men, women and adults. The executions were based on doubts, being Shiites and to terrorize the people that the punishment facing them if they think to attack SH is terrible and extraordinary which will burn the every thing.

Since that time until the fall of the regime in March 2003, the youths from Dijeel were not allowed to enter the universities, they have no rights to request any basic right, they stripped out of any services, and simply they lived in a prison called Dijeel inside a bigger prison called Iraq."
hammorabi