1999 Shia uprising in Iraq

1999 Shia uprising in Iraq
Part of Prelude to the Iraq war
Date18 February – April 1999
Location
Result

Iraqi government victory

  • Uprising suppressed
Belligerents

Rebels:

Commanders and leaders
Saddam Hussein
President of Iraq
Ali Hassan al-Majid
Iraqi Intelligence Director
Taha Yasin
Vice President of Iraq
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri
Deputy Chairman of the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council
Tariq Aziz
Member of the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council
Qusay Hussein
Son of Saddam Hussein
Mohammed al-Sadr X
Shia cleric and opposition leader
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
210-410 killed Dozens dead, wounded and arrested
200+ dead

The 1999 Shia uprising in Iraq (Arabic: انتفاضة العراق 1999, romanizedintifāḍa al-ʿIrāq 1999) or Second Sadr Uprising (انتفاضة الصدر intifāḍa ṣadara) was a short period of unrest in Iraq in early 1999 following the killing of Muhammad al-Sadr allegedly by the then Ba'athist–led government of Iraq. 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.