TORONTO – Tuesday marks 10 years since the destruction of a statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad’s Firdos Square. American troops stormed the area on April 9, 2003 and toppled the statue of Iraq’s former dictator, marking the symbolic collapse of his regime.
Hussein, who came to be known as the “Butcher of Baghdad,” was hanged in Baghdad in December 2006 for crimes against humanity committed during a 24-year reign of brutality that ended with the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.
Global News takes a look back at other well-known political monuments that were defaced.
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