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against his own people. Throughout his
rule, those regarded as opponents of
the regime, and various political and
ethnic groups, have suffered all kinds
of repression. An edition of Newsweek
described Saddam's fascistic character
in the following manner:

His detractors call him a bloodthirsty
tyrant—the Butcher of Baghdad.
Saddam Hussein rules Iraq with an iron
hand inside a steel glove, backed by a
million-man Army and a legion of
informers, assasins and torturers. Saddam,
as he is known throughout the Middle East,
is utterly ruthless in the pursuit of glory for
himself and his country. He has not hesitated to
use poison gas on enemies both foreign and
domestic. 135
Saddam has spilt the blood of numberless
Iraqis. At the end of the war against Iran, 1 million
out of Iraq's population of 17 million had either
been killed or injured. More than 1 million people
left the country for political and economic reasons.
The human rights organization Middle East Watch
states that many people were relocated or deported,
arrested and punished for no reason, and that the use of
torture was widespread, together with political
executions and unsolved killings in Iraq. According to
Amnesty International, torture, even of children, includes
such methods as roasting victims over flames, amputating
noses, limbs, breasts and sexual organs, and hammering nails
into bodies. 136
The atrocities carried out by Saddam at Halabja in
1988 demonstrate his fascistic treatment of people of
different ethnic origins. Nerve gas was used against the
Kurdish settlers, causing the death of many innocent
men and women, including babies and the elderly.