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20th-century mass murders in Iraq

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Anfal campaign
1986 genocidal campaign against the Kurdish people
Halabja massacre
massacre against the Kurdish people that took place in Halabja, Iraq on March 16, 1988
Farhud
The '''''' () was a pogrom carried out against the Jewish population of Baghdad, Iraq, on 1–2 June 1941 (coinciding with the Jewish holiday of Shavuot), immediately following the British victory in the Anglo-Iraqi War. The riots occurred in a power vacuum that followed the collapse of the pro-Fascist and pro-Nazi government of Rashid Ali al-Gaylani while the city was in a state of instability. The violence came immediately after the rapid defeat of Rashid Ali by British forces, whose earlier coup had generated a short period of national euphoria, and was fueled by allegations that Iraqi Jews h
Simele massacre
massacre by the armed forces of the Kingdom of Iraq
Dujail Massacre
Iraqi massacre
1959 Mosul Uprising
attempted coup in Iraq
1979 Baath Party Purge
public purge of the Iraqi Ba'ath Party by Saddam Hussein
Amiriyah shelter bombing
military aerial bombing in Iraq
1991 Altun Köpru massacre
massacre in Iraq
Operation Karbala-4
1986 Iranian offensive in the Iran–Iraq War
1950–1951 Baghdad bombings
bombing of Jewish targets in Baghdad, Iraq, between April 1950 and June 1951
1935–1936 Iraqi Shia revolts
Uprising by Shia tribesmen
Al-Wathbah uprising
1948 protests in Baghdad, Iraq
Gavurbağı massacre
1946 massacre
1935 Yazidi revolt
yazidi revolt against Kingdom of Iraq
Kirkuk massacre
1959 massacre in Iraq
1991 uprising in Sulaymaniyah
part of the Iraqi uprisings following the Gulf War
Zebra
Iraqi robber and serial killer
1924 Kirkuk massacre
1924 massacre in Iraq