1979 Ba'ath Party Purge
id:
1979-ba-ath-party-purge-172-14141206
title:
1979 Ba'ath Party Purge
text:
The 1979 Ba'ath Party Purge, also called the Comrades Massacre, was a public purge of the Iraqi Ba'ath Party orchestrated on 22 July 1979 by then-president Saddam Hussein six days after his arrival to the presidency of the Iraqi Republic on 16 July 1979. Six days after the resignation of President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr and Hussein's accession to President of the Iraqi Republic, Regional Secretary of the party, and Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council on July 16, 1979, he organized a Ba'a
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Public purge of the Iraqi Ba'ath Party by Saddam Hussein
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_Ba%27ath_Party_Purge
date created:
2017-02-08T03:04:53Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T23:31:18Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q30324200","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30324200"}
image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/Hussein_Assad_Bouteflika_Khaddam.jpg","width":600,"height":391}
fields total:
13
integrity:
16