 1978-1979
Up to 7,000 Iraqi communists were executed by orders of the Ba'athist regime.
1982
The specific atrocity for which Saddam was hanged: 148 Shias were murdered in the village of Dujail.
1984
Up to 4,000 political prisoners in Abu Ghraib jail were tortured and killed. Saddam's favoured methods of torture included cutting off genitalia, gouging out eyes and acid baths.
1980-1988
Some 1.7m died on both sides during the Iran-Iraq war, started by Saddam.
1987-1989
At least 100,000 Kurds were slaughtered in the so-called Anfal campaign. Some were gassed, others cast alive into mass graves.
1988
On March 16, in the worst single atrocity of the Anfal campaign, 5,000 Kurds were killed when Saddam ordered planes to drop a mixture of mustard gas and the nerve agent sarin on the town of Halabja.
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1990-1991
About 25,000 Iraqi troops are thought to have died in the seven-month Gulf War, which began when US-led forces entered Iraq following Saddam's invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990. Estimates of Iraqi civilian deaths have varied wildly - up to 200,000. The coalition death toll was 378 and many troops suffered from the unexplained "Gulf War syndrome".
1991
Tens of thousands were killed as Saddam attempted to put down a popular rebellion following his defeat by the US-led forces in February 1991. More than 100,000 Shias were killed; a similar number of Kurds died. About 200,000 Marsh Arabs were killed or made homeless.
1993-1998
About 3,000 prisoners were machine-gunned to death at Mahjar prison in central Baghdad.
2003-2006
Iraqi casualties since the March 2003 invasion have been estimated at 650,000 by Johns Hopkins University. America has lost 3,000 troops and Britain 127.
FIRST POSTED DECEMBER 31, 2006
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