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  • 1999 Shia uprising in Iraq
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  • The 1999 Shia uprising in Iraq refers to a short period of unrest in Iraq in early 1999 following the killing of Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr by the then Ba'athist government of Iraq. The protests and ensuing violence were strongest in the heavily Shia neighborhoods of Baghdad, as well as southern majority Shiite cities such as Karbala, Nasiriyah, Kufa, Najaf, and Basra.
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Date
  • --02-18
Commander
  • Abdul Aziz al-Hakim
  • Hadi al-Amiri
  • Izzat Ibrahim ad-Douri
  • (Badr Corps commander)
  • (Leader of the Badr Corps)
  • (President of Iraq)
  • (Son of Saddam Hussein)
  • (Vice President of Iraq)
  • Ali Hassan al-Majid
  • Mohammad Baqir al-Hakim
  • Qusay Hussein
  • Saddam Hussein'''
  • Taha Yasin
  • Tariq Aziz
  • (Leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq)
  • (Deputy Chairman of the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council)
  • (Iraqi Intelligence Director)
  • (Member of the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council)
Casualties
  • 40
  • 200
  • Hundreds dead, wounded and arrested
Result
  • Uprising suppressed
combatant
  • Rebels: * SCIRI / Badr * Dawa
  • * Iraqi Armed Forces * Republican Guard * Fedayeen Saddam * Ba'ath Party
Place
  • Iraq
Conflict
  • 1999
abstract
  • The 1999 Shia uprising in Iraq refers to a short period of unrest in Iraq in early 1999 following the killing of Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr by the then Ba'athist government of Iraq. The protests and ensuing violence were strongest in the heavily Shia neighborhoods of Baghdad, as well as southern majority Shiite cities such as Karbala, Nasiriyah, Kufa, Najaf, and Basra.