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1991 Iraqi uprisings

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Basra · Karbala · Najaf · Iraqi Kurdistan · Iraq

Estimated casualties

25K – 180Kestimated dead

Estimates of those killed in suppression range widely from tens of thousands to ~180,000+, plus mass displacement.

SOURCEscholarly

Mass Shia and Kurdish uprisings (the Sha'aban Intifada) against Saddam Hussein in March–April 1991 following the Gulf War ceasefire, which briefly seized most Iraqi provinces before being brutally crushed. Estimates of those killed in the suppression range from tens of thousands to well over 100,000.

Belligerents2

Iraq (Saddam Hussein/Ba'athist government)
Shia and Kurdish rebels

Sources

Wikipedia: Sha'aban Intifada
UCDP Conflict Encyclopedia
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: 1991 Iraqi uprisings (1991). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/1991-iraqi-uprisings · Sources & methodology