20 years ago the statue of Saddam Hussein fell in Baghdad, which is considered one of the symbols of the regime. Here are the news stories announcing the April 9, 2003 murder. The Rais is then hanged on December 30, 2006.
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(ANSA) — AMMAN, APRIL 9 — It was thrown down by the crowd,
with the help of an American tank, the statue of Saddam Hussein
which was in the place of Ferdous and which was considered one
of the symbols of the regime. (HAND).
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04/09/03 16:49 NNN
It lasted nearly two hours, then the statue of Saddam Hussein, the symbol of a regime in defeat under the advancing Americans, slowly and gently collapsed before shattering and falling to the ground, where it was struck by a small crowd of Iraqis who trampled and jumped on it in Paradise Square in central Baghdad. The bronze statue, one of hundreds of Saddams, was dedicated on April 28, 2002, to mark the Rai’s 65th birthday.
37 pillars were erected around the square, like the year of Saddam’s birth 1937 with the inscription SH in Arabic characters. A few dozen Iraqis gathered in the late afternoon in the square in front of the international press hotels, where American tanks had just arrived. They climbed onto the statue of Saddam standing, right hand raised and eyes fixed on the horizon. They put a noose around the monument, about a dozen meters. They hit the base with a pickaxe and sledgehammer, but only managed to scratch it. Then they called for help from the marines, who arrived with a tank. After Saddam was harnessed with a large chain, the statue – humiliated with an American flag in its face but immediately removed – was pulled out of the armored car. But it didn’t snap into place right away. The tall form of the Rais bent first and caught his feet. Then it slowly broke and fell to the ground while the Iraqis yelled against Saddam.
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