Posted on 01/20/2004 10:24:17 PM PST by JohnHuang2
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:12:48 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
BAGHDAD -- Shi'ite Muslims marched through Baghdad for a second day yesterday, this time demanding the execution of Saddam Hussein -- whose Sunni-dominated regime repressed the Shi'ite majority for decades.
An estimated 5,000 people joined the march that wound its way from Sadr City, a poor Shi'ite neighborhood in northeastern Baghdad, to Firdous Square, the plaza in the center of the capital where Saddam's statue was pulled down April 9, marking the ouster of the Ba'athist regime.
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... they bound his arms behind his back, put a noose about his neck, and dragged him with rent garments and half-naked to the Forum. All along the Sacred Way he was greeted with mockery and abuse, his head held back by the hair, as is common with criminals, and even the point of a sword placed under his chin, so that he could not look down but must let his face be seen. Some pelted him with dung and ordure, others called him incendiary and glutton, and some of the mob even taunted him with his bodily defects. ... At last on the Stairs of Wailing he was tortured for a long time and then despatched and dragged off with a hook to the Tiber.
This is a pretty tame translation, but the Penguin version I own states that the soldiers put him through "the torture of the little cuts" before finally killing him. I've not been able to find out what the expression means, but it doesn't sound nice. And Vitellius wasn't anywhere near as bad as Saddam.
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