Twenty years pass over the fall of Saddam's regime
Iraq 01:00 PM - 2023-04-09Toppling Saddam's statue.
Today marks the 20th anniversary of the liberation of Iraq from a dictatorship.
There were numerous reasons for Saddam Hussein's overthrow, notably: the Iraqi government continued to ignore UN resolutions on weapons of mass destruction, and Saddam's government continued to manufacture such weapons and support terrorist organizations, particularly al-Qaeda.
The fallen Ba'ath regime brutally tortured all Iraqi communities. When the fallen Ba'ath regime bombed Halabja with banned chemical weapons on March 16, 1988, it killed 5,000 Kurds. The Anfal campaign was another Ba'ath regime atrocity in which 182,000 innocent Kurdish citizens were killed or disappeared. Across Iraq, mass graves where Kurds were buried alive are still being discovered.
Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath regime was toppled on April 9, 2003, after which Iraq was liberated.
The liberation of Iraq for almost 40–45 days aimed to end the destruction and mass killing of the Kurdish people by the Ba'ath regime and the oppression of neighboring countries.
The operation began on March 19, 2003, and lasted until May 1. About 177,000 U.S. troops, 45,000 British soldiers, and 2000 Australian soldiers, along with others from different countries, joined the war to liberate Iraq.
On April 9, 2003, US forces announced the extension of their control over most of the areas, and news agencies reported scenes of a small crowd toppling a statue of the dictator Saddam Hussein at Firdos Square in Baghdad.
Firdos Square entered history on April 9, 2003, as a witness to the liberation of Baghdad with the fall of the statue of Saddam Hussein and the announcement of the end of his fascist party's rule.
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