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He was waging war on his own people
-The Kurds (20% of the population) in the oil-rich north wanted independence
-Saddam was prepared to use methods of exceptional brutality and ruthlessness to solve this
-Campaigns against the Kurds were most ferocious between 1987 and 1988 and again in 1991
-Saddam destroyed half of Kurdistan's villages and towns, killed thousands of Kurds using mustard gas and cyanide, and displaced more than a million people
-many fled to Iran or Turkey while others were housed in concentration camps located in the Iraqi desert
-On of the most appalling attacks took place against the town of Halabja in March 1988
-Iraqi planes spread poison gas over the area killing 5,000 mean, women and children while inflicting injuries on another 10,000
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