About: Draining of the Mesopotamian Marshes

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Saddam Hussein's campaigns to drain marshes and force population transfer

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  • saddam Hussein's campaigns to drain marshes and force population transfer (en)
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  • A 1994 map of the Mesopotamian Marshes with the pink zones showing drained areas (en)
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  • 1950 (xsd:integer)
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  • Land reclamation and reprisal for the Shi'ite insurrection in 1991 (en)
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  • Ba'athist Iraq (en)
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  • *90% of the marshlands disappeared by 2000 *Desertification of over 7,500 square miles *200,000 Marsh Arabs displaced (en)
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  • Draining of the Mesopotamian Marshes (en)
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  • Draining of the Mesopotamian Marshes (en)
  • تجفيف الأهوار (ar)
  • Drenagem dos pântanos mesopotâmicos (pt)
  • 抽乾美索不達米亞沼澤 (zh)
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