I have created this set especially at a request from a friend of the site who suggested the topic. It is not the anniversary of the Iraqi uprising but I will release the set now.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
The 1991 uprisings in Iraq were a series of intifada rebellions in Southern and Northern Iraq in the aftermath of the Persian Gulf War.
The revolts in the Shia-dominated cities of Basra and Nasiriyah broke out in March 1991, sparked by demoralized Iraqi Army troops returning from Iraq’s defeat in the Persian Gulf War. Another uprising in the Kurdish areas of Northern Iraq broke out shortly thereafter. Unlike the spontaneous rebellion in the South, the uprising in the North was organized by two rival Kurdish militias, the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan.
Although they presented a serious threat to his regime, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was able to suppress the rebellions with massive force and maintain power, as the expected intervention by the United States never materialized. The uprisings were eventually crushed by the Iraqi Republican Guard, followed by mass reprisals and intensified forced relocation of Marsh Arabs, including draining of the marshlands. In few weeks tens of thousands of civilians were killed.