Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Nature of Saddam Hussein's rule in Iraq
- Positions
- President
- Chairman of RCC
- Prime Minister
- Commander-in-Chief of armed forces
- Ruled as dictator
- Purges and terror
- Dealing with opponents
- Unquestioned mastery
- hundrets executed
- Meeting with Ba'ath party
- Naming of
66 persons
- killed and
prison
- Arresting, torture etc.
became normal under his
rule
- Waging war on his own people
- Wants to unify Iraq
- Kurds
- Campaigns against them
- Concentration camps
- Killed many
- Want independence
- Shiites
- Human shields against tanks
- Hostile asainst regime
- Executed and arrested
- Personality cult
- Realised that dictatorship not popular
- Wants to improve image of him
- Photos and films of him
- To picture him better
- Hang out in streets
- Visiting homes of people
- Doubles to appear more often
- Modernisation
- Oil nationalisation
- Finances improve
- Carrying out economy, social
facilities and institutions
- Support from Iraqi people
- Had to suffer because war
was expensive
- Military expansion
- Builds military power from oil revenues
- Buys weapons
- Tanks, bombers etc.
- Biological, chemical and
nuclear weapons too
- Totalitarianism
- Absolute power in Iraq
- Control over social,
economic and political life
- Children already introduced
to Baath ideas and leader
- A lot Censorship
- All production for needs of state
- Membership of Baath
important (essential)