1979 Ba'ath Party Purge

GPTKB entity

Statements (23)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf political purge
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs Ba'ath Party Purge of 1979
gptkbp:country gptkb:Iraq
gptkbp:date July 1979
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label 1979 Ba'ath Party Purge
gptkbp:location gptkb:Baghdad
gptkbp:mediaCoverage televised confessions
gptkbp:method public confession and execution
gptkbp:notableVictim Abdulaziz al-Badri
Abdulghani Rahim
Adil al-Hadithi
Ghanim Abdul-Jalil
Muhyi Abd al-Hussein Mashhadi
gptkbp:numberOfExecutions at least 22
gptkbp:perpetrator Saddam Hussein
gptkbp:precededBy Saddam Hussein becoming President of Iraq
gptkbp:relatedEvent Ba'ath Party rule in Iraq
Saddam Hussein's rise to power
gptkbp:result consolidation of Saddam Hussein's power
gptkbp:significance elimination of potential rivals
gptkbp:target Ba'ath Party members
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Iraqi_Ba'ath_Party
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7