Saddam Hussein and his two co-defendants, Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, are sentenced to death following a conviction of the mass killing of Iraqi Shi'ites in Dujail in 1982.
Year
2006
Date of Event
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