Remembering the Baghdad hangings, 49 years ago

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With thanks: Rick

 Tomorrow is Holocaust Memorial Day. Although the event is not remotely comparable to the mass extermination of six million Jews,   it is also 49 years since the Ba’ath party regime hanged nine innocent Jews in Baghdad’s Liberation Square. Half a million Iraqis came to sing and dance under the corpses. Of the nine victims, four had their ages falsified because they were under the legal age for hanging of 18.

A few days ago, Richard Atrachki appeared on the Israeli Arabic Channel to recall his memories of that fateful time. You can see his interview (Arabic) from 16:47 minutes into the video below. The clip has some rare footage of the scenes in Liberation Square on 27 January 1969.

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The tenth man and his sister