Ousted Sudanese President Omar Al Bashir admitted that he bore responsibility for the June 30, 1989 coup, in his first statement before the judiciary since he was ousted and detained on April 11, 2019, saying: "I know that confession is the master of evidence."
Benjamin Franklin, a founding father of the United States, reminded that ‘The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs of his neighbour.’ He may not, however, have been to Iraqi Kurdistan, a.
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In-depth: Fuelled by nationalism, pan-Arabism, and anti-imperialism, the revolution of 1952 overthrew King Farouk to create a republic free from foreign rule. Seventy years later, the ideals of freedom and equality remain as distant as ever.
Saddam Hussein, also spelled Ṣaddām Ḥusayn, in full Ṣaddām Ḥusayn al-Tikrītī, (born April 28, 1937, Al-ʿAwjah, Iraq died December 30, 2006, Baghdad), president of Iraq (1979–2003) whose brutal rule was marked by costly and unsuccessful wars against neighbouring countries. Saddam, the son of peasants, was born in a village near the city of Tikrīt in northern Iraq. The area was one of the poorest in the country, and Saddam himself grew up in poverty. His father died before he was born, and he went at an early age to live with an uncle in Baghdad. He joined the Baʿath Party in