Saddam Hussein’s Baathist Regime

AD – MPE: 0.01

ND – MPE: 0.2

The Wikipedia-article called “Human Rights in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq” cites estimates for the number of innocent people killed by Saddam Hussein’s Baathist regime from 1979 to 2003, which range from 0.08 to 0.25 million – 0.05 to 0.1 million in the Anfal campaign against the Kurds.

During the Anfal-campaign the United States supported Iraq with money, weapons, intelligence, military training and diplomacy. France, West Germany, Britain, Spain and Switzerland and other advanced democracies supported Iraq with weapons and chemicals, which were used for chemical warfare against civilians. This support by democratic pioneers was highly significant. I blame these democracies for 2 to 8 percent of the victims.

Plausible estimates for the number of innocent people killed by the dictatorship range from 0.08 to 0.25. I choose 0.20 as the most plausible estimate. Plausible estimates for the number of innocent people killed by advanced democracies range from 0.01 to 0.02. I choose 0.01 as the most plausible estimate.