1922 King Faisal struck by appendicitis with no PM or govt British
High
Commissioner
Cox ruled until king returned
1922 Cox deported and exiled opposition leaders banned
opposition parties and papers
Silencing
opposition and Shiite leaders
1952 Communist led strike at Basra port led to clash with
police
1962 Govt census in Jazeera listed 120,000 Kurds as aliens
during Kurdish revolt
1988 UN said that Iraq used poison gas in attack on
Oshnaviyeh, Iran on Aug 2
that
wounded around 2,600 civilians
1988 7th time UN documented use of WMD by Iraq
1990 Saddam appeared on state TV with western hostages in
Iraq Told them they were
being held
to prevent war
2003 CPA created Dep of Border Enforcement but gave it
little money to control
Iraq’s
borders
2003 Turkmen protested in Kirkuk city over Turkmen being
killed Turned violent 3
killed
15-20 wounded
2005 US embassy report said Gen Casey’s plan for handing
off security to Iraq had no
chance of
succeeding and argued for counterinsurgency to defeat insurgency
2015 Police opened fire on demonstrations in Babil
wounding 4
2015 2 Reporters in Diwaniya said they were threatened by
gunmen not to cover protests
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