Hand painted roadside portrait of Saddam Hussein in Iraqi Kurdistan, 1989. Saddam after the Iran-Iraq war and Kurdish mountains.

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Portrait of Saddam Hussein in Iraqi Kurdistan, 1989. Compulsory images of the President were erected in every town and city in Iraq. Images after the Iran-Iraq war. The personality cult of Saddam Hussein grew as great as here with him dwarfing the Kurdish mountains. Saddam Hussein turned his attention to the Kurds at the end of the Iran-Iraq war and began the Anfal genocide campaign.

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Size: 3513px × 5388px
Location: Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraq
Photo credit: © Sheri Laizer / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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