1999 Shia uprising in Iraq

1999 Shia uprising in Iraq
	Part of the Persian Gulf Conflicts
	Baghdad Karbala Nasiriyah Najaf Basra; Epicenters of the uprising
Date	18 February – April 1999
Location	Iraq
Result	Iraqi government victory Uprising suppressed;
Belligerents
Iraq Iraqi Armed Forces; Republican Guard; Fedayeen Saddam; Ba'ath Party;	Rebels: SCIRI / Badr; Dawa;
Commanders and leaders
Saddam Hussein; President of Iraq; Ali Hassan al-Majid; Iraqi Intelligence Director; Taha Yasin; Vice President of Iraq; Izzat Ibrahim ad-Douri; Deputy Chairman of the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council; Tariq Aziz; Member of the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council; Qusay Hussein; Son of Saddam Hussein	Mohammad Baqir al-Hakim; Leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq; Abdul Aziz al-Hakim; Leader of the Badr Corps; Hadi al-Amiri; Badr Corps commander
Casualties and losses
180+ dead	Dozens dead, wounded and arrested
	200+ dead

The 1999 Shia uprising in Iraq (Arabic: انتفاضة العراق 1999, romanized: intifāḍa al-ʿIrāq 1999) or Second Sadr Uprising (انتفاضة الصدر intifāḍa ṣadara^[5]) was a short period of unrest in Iraq in early 1999 following the killing of Muhammad al-Sadr by the then Ba'athist government of Iraq.^[4] The protests and ensuing violence were strongest in the heavily Shia neighborhoods of Baghdad, as well as southern majority Shiite cities such as Karbala, Nasiriyah, Kufa, Najaf, and Basra.^[6]

^ Alexander Smoltczyk (28 April 2003). "Religion: The curse of Saddam City". Spiegel Online. Retrieved 17 August 2013.
^ Amnesty International, Iraq: Victims of Systematic Repression, 24 November 1999, MDE 14/010/1999
^ ^a ^b ^c Tareekh al-Iraq- By Shaikh Nouman al-Khaz'Ali, Pages 67–72
^ ^a ^b Dan Murphy (27 April 2004). "Sadr the agitator: like father, like son". The Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved 1 February 2013.
^ Esomba, Steve, Wall Streets Infected By Arab Spring, p. 5
^ Cite error: The named reference III. The al-Sadr Intifada of 1999 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[1] Alexander Smoltczyk (28 April 2003). "Religion: The curse of Saddam City". Spiegel Online. Retrieved 17 August 2013.

[2] Amnesty International, Iraq: Victims of Systematic Repression, 24 November 1999, MDE 14/010/1999

[tareekh_al-iraq-3] Tareekh al-Iraq- By Shaikh Nouman al-Khaz'Ali, Pages 67–72

[CSM-4] Dan Murphy (27 April 2004). "Sadr the agitator: like father, like son". The Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved 1 February 2013.

[5] Esomba, Steve, Wall Streets Infected By Arab Spring, p. 5

[III._The_al-Sadr_Intifada_of_1999-6] Cite error: The named reference III. The al-Sadr Intifada of 1999 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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