9th Class Social Science Democracy in the Contemporary World Question Bank Long Answer Type - Democracy in the Contemporary World

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    What happened to Iraq, after getting independence from British? 

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    Iraq is a country in Western Asia. It became independent from British in 1932. Three decades later there was a series of coups by military office Since1968, it was ruled by Arab Socialist Ba'th Party Saddam Hussein?s leading Ba'th Party leader, played a key role in the 1968 coup that brought party to power. This government abolished traditional Islamic law and gave women the right to vote and several other freedoms that were not granted other Western Asian countries. After becoming the President of Iraq in 1979 Saddam ran a dictatorial government and suppressed any opposition to his rule. He was known to have got a number of political opponents killed and persons of ethnic minority massacred.


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