Saddam Hussein's Very Public Purge

Shortly after assuming the Presidency of Iraq in July 1979, Saddam Hussein convened a gathering of his Ba'ath Party leaders and publicly had 68 of them removed for alleged treason. Twenty-two of them were subsequently sentenced to death by firing squad.

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[petergriffin]

These same cameras are used today whenever somebody sees a bigfoot or UFO

[SwastikaHinduSansrkit]

This was the ONE time a "call in sick" would have been worth it.

[baraxor]

See, Robespierre, this is how you do the "I have a list of traitors" ploy correctly.

[benmoon]

The bloke at the end that yelled "Long live Suddam Hussein" was definitely in on the coup. Lol.

[neiljohnson]

At one point he reads out "Mohammed" and pauses for a while knowing 80% of attendees had Mohammed in their names.

[kadafilyf]

What I've learnt from history:
If you're ever exposed as a conspirator and promised your life in exchange for giving up your friends, you will still be killed.

[No_mans_flies]

I’d be pretty pissed if that was how good the TV reception was. Someone needs to be held accountable

[spookyt]

I always thought this play was one of the smoothest moves a dictator ever pulled off. So evil, so surgical.

[datascientist]

It felt like I was watching Michael Corleone conduct business.

[iraqimapper]

My uncle was there, he said they were executed on the other room while the party meeting's member's were listening

[ChairmanMeow]

Could you even imagine sitting there thinking at any time he could call your name and you're off to your death??

[ronaldochop]

Back then Iraq had only one dictator now Iraq has thousands of dictators.

[zerocool]

Being a introvert in that crowd was a very positive position lol.

[Batman]

"Evil" or not, he kept those animals over there in check.

Now look.

[Noirr_]

☠️☠️☠️☠️bro imagine getting told "GET OUT" yeah next stop is the grave 😂😂😂

[sadikmeah]

The sycophant shouting at the end was probably glad he got away 😂🤣😂🤣

[zwwhtmx]

"their faces were white as snow!" cuts to 140p quality camera recorded off potato

[mrniceguy]

For people who don’t get the purpose of a “cult of personality” look at how that one guy starts praising Saddam once he saw people taken away.

[jhanbury]

This is what happens when you give too much power to one person.

[Markus-rmzt]

This sounds messed up but imagine being in Saddam's shoes in that very moment, in that room. He held absolute power, literally.