Iraqi gov't bans organized visits to Saddam Hussein's grave

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Iraqi gov't bans organized visits to Saddam Hussein's grave

BAGHDAD, July 6 (Xinhua) — The Iraqi government decided Monday to ban organized visits to the grave of the former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein after some schools in Salahudin province arranged trips for their pupils to the site.

"The cabinet secretariat has issued instructions to the Ministry of Education, Salahudin province and its provincial council to do what is necessary to prevent arranging trips to the grave of the president of the former regime," the government said in a statement on its website.

The instructions came after some pupils of a school in Tikrit, the hometown of Saddam Hussein, arranged a trip to his grave, which is regularly visited by some Iraqis, particularly, Saddam's loyalists in his native village of Awja, some 20 km southeast of the provincial capital city of Tikrit.

Saddam Hussein, was born on April 28, 1937 in the town of al-Awja, some 170 km north of Baghdad. He was hanged on December 30, 2006.

Hussein was the president of Iraq from July 16, 1979 until the U.S.-led invasion on April 9, 2003 that toppled his regime.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-07/06/content_11663723.htm

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The puppet Iraqi government has banned the visit to grave of former president of Iraq Saddam Hussein's, fearing that Death Saddam may be an idol for the people who are fighting against the occupying forces.

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