How many people did Sadaam Kill?

Question

I heard that he killed a few hundred people.. I have a friend who says he killed millions of people..does anyone know how many people he actually killed?

why?....because I was having a debate with my friend, thats why. WHY'd you answer, if you dont know? infact, if it bothers you so much, whyd you even click on the question, smarty pants.

Answer 1

He was CONVICTED of killing of killing 148 people in one specific attack. They decided that the death penalty was justified by this crime alone. Other trials were pending for other crimes, including genocide against the Kurds. He is known to be responsible for at least 300,000 murders. Some estimates run as high as 1,000,000. Many are in mass graves which are still being investigated. This does not include deaths due to the wars he got Iraq into.

Answer 2

Of the many random excuses we've been given for invading Iraq, the number of people that died at the hands of Saddam's regime was a big one. Well, in three years, it looks like we've topped his decades of rule.

War has wiped out about 655,000 Iraqis or more than 500 people a day since the U.S.-led invasion, a new study reports.
Violence including gunfire and bombs caused the majority of deaths but thousands of people died from worsening health and environmental conditions directly related to the conflict that began in 2003, U.S. and Iraqi public health researchers said.

"Since March 2003, an additional 2.5 percent of Iraq's population have died above what would have occurred without conflict," according to the survey of Iraqi households, titled "The Human Cost of the War in Iraq."

The survey, being published online by British medical journal The Lancet, gives a far higher number of deaths in Iraq than other organizations. (Read the full report -- pdf)

Researchers randomly selected 1,849 households across Iraq and asked questions about births and deaths and migration for the study led by Gilbert Burnham of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland.

They extrapolated the figures to reflect the national picture, saying Iraq's death rate had more than doubled since the invasion

Answer 3

do you know how many Iraqi citizens were killed in 2006? 12500 Iraqi half of them in the past four months only in December 2006. 2000 Iraqi were killed and of course Saddam is not the one who killed them because he was captured by the allies

Answer 4

1,655,000 Iraqis or more than 500 people a day. Around that, he killed terrorists, familys and kids, through gas and torture.

Answer 5

Millions of his own people, that was kind of a small genocide..☺

Answer 6

don't know but it was in the millions for sure. he fought with the kurds and tried to wipe them out.
he was a sick sick bastard and i'm glad he is gone.

Answer 7

to many.

Answer 8

why !?