A failed assassination attempt against Iraqi president Saddam Hussein results in the Dujail Massacre over the next several months.

Dujail massacre

1982 mass killing in Dujail, Iraq

The Dujail massacre was a mass killing of Shia rebels by the Ba'athist Iraqi government on 8 July 1982 in Dujail, Iraq. The massacre was committed in retaliation to an earlier assassination attempt by the Iranian-backed Islamic Dawa Party against the President of Iraq, Saddam…