From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Saddam Hussein Nagar, Sri Lanka
Saddam Hussein Nagar, Sri Lanka
Saddam Hussein Town (Tamil: சதாம் உேசன் நகர்) is • that the U.S. was evading the issue of the missing
the name of a village exclusively inhabited by local Mus- weapons of mass destruction.
lims in the Batticaloa district of Sri Lanka. It is named af- • that they were receiving a number of reports about
ter Saddam Hussein, former President of Iraq, who do- the murder of innocent people and harassment of
nated all the funds required to build the village and its women in Iraq.
central Mosque. Hussein first became involved in the vil-
lage after floods hit the area in 1978 and local authorities
approached the Iraqi embassy for help. The former presi-
Attacks on the village
dent was said to have readily obliged and sponsored con- 127 Muslims were murdered at three villages, including
struction of the entire village with some 100 houses, in- Saddam Hussein Village, about 10 August 1990, allegedly
cluding a school and a mosque. by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. [1]
After the capture of Saddam by United States military
forces, the villagers of Saddam Hussein Village were crit- External links
ical of the U.S. policy in Iraq. Among the comments
recorded by the BBC were: • People’s Daily Report
• that the arrest was "unacceptable". • BBC News: Gloom in Saddam’s Sri Lanka Village
• that it was one more example of U.S. high- Coordinates: 7°47′N 81°36′E / 7.783°N 81.6°E / 7.783; 81.6
handedness and dictatorship.
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