On December 30, 2006, Saddam Washi was sent to the gallows.
Despite all the humiliations and tortures he suffered in prison, until the last moment of his life, Saddam Hussein stood up straight, looked calm, and did not panic at all because of the impending death.
The true colors of the tyrants are unmistakable.
Saddam Hussein has always been a controversial character in the hearts of Iraqis, some hating his ruthlessness and cruelty, while others nostalgic for the prosperous 80s under his rule.
But if you talk about the death of Saddam's eldest son, Uday, I am afraid that no one will have a feeling of regret or sympathy, after all, in Iraq, the word "Uday" was once synonymous with demons.
Born on June 18, 1964, Uday was arrested and imprisoned five months after saddam Hussein was arrested and imprisoned for failing to attempt a coup d'état.
However, Saddam Hussein soon escaped from prison and was elected president in 1979, beginning his 24-year reign.
The reason why saddam Hussein's "history of ascension to the throne" is because it is inseparable from the cultivation of Udai's character.
Saddam Hussein's life experience is very legendary: the poor children who came out of the small village grew up step by step through struggles and assassinations, and finally became the "king" of Iraq.
This experience made him extremely violent and fond of iron-fisted rule.
He also implements this when educating his children.
When Uday was 6 years old, Saddam taught him to shoot, and in order to train his son, Saddam often took him to the execution ground to watch, and even encouraged his son to do it himself.
From an early age, he was often exposed to this bloody environment, which also made Uday's personality extremely tyrannical.
And as Saddam Hussein rose step by step, the power in Uday's hands also increased, which made him act more unscrupulously.
Saddam Hussein wanted to cultivate a successor, not a pure killer, so he also attached great importance to the cultural learning of Udai.
The University of Baghdad is the best university in Iraq and the alma mater of Uday.
Unfortunately, Udai not only entered this university by walking through connections, but also used this place as his own hunting ground.
This can be demonstrated by a gruesome example, when Udai had a crush on a female classmate and two boys who were his love enemies, he had no choice but to do so in a very crisp and neat way - to have the bodyguards send the two boys to feed the lions.
It sounds sensational, but it's nothing to put on Udai, because he's done so many more cruel things than that.
Uday is obsessed with beauty, he uses the whole of Iraq as his harem, usually driving on the street when he is fine, and when he finds the target, he directly abducts it.
At the same time, he is particularly fond of the new and tired of the old, and it is said that he never sleeps with the same women more than three times.
Because of his intemperate treatment of women, he has caused countless tragedies, and even raped the bride at the wedding.
In 1990, Saddam's officers got married and sent an invitation to Uday, who arrived at the scene as promised, and everything looked so normal.
But when the bride appeared, Udai became lustful and forced the bride to have sex with him.
In the end, the bride committed suicide in public because of the humiliation, but Uday left with a look of indifference.
The reason why Uday dared to do this, of course, was because of the connivance from his father.
So when he provokes Saddam Hussein, the good days will come to an end.
In 1988, Uday beat a man named Kamal to death with a stick.
It is reasonable to say that he is not the first time to take people's lives, this time it should be as silent as before, and it is not easy to remember a little wave.
But Uday misjudged Saddam's reaction, because the people he killed this time were not ordinary.
Kamal was Saddam's bodyguard and confidant, and Saddam had more trust in him than his son.
It may sound like an exaggeration, but the importance of Kamal's importance in considering that he has always been responsible for tasting food for Saddam Hussein has been proven.
So Saddam Hussein was furious when he heard the news that Kamal had been killed by Udai.
What's more, the reason why Uday wanted to kill Kamal was because Kamal often looked for beautiful women for Saddam, which was really untenable.
But no matter what, Uday is also Saddam's son, and although Saddam is extremely angry, he locked up Udai for a while or released it.
Only after this incident, Udai was gradually excluded from the core of power.
This is partly because Saddam Hussein's anger has not subsided, and partly because Uday's performance is too brutal to be a leader.
Nevertheless, saddam Hussein's son alone was enough to give Uday a transcendent position in Iraq.
How extravagant was his life at the time?
In order to live a little more comfortably, Uday built himself a palace, of which nearly a hundred people served him alone, and his life included luxury cars and wine in addition to beauty.
Udai collects luxury cars in a special way, he will let people on the Internet specially sort out the list of luxury car models, and then send someone to buy them one by one according to the list.
With this "bold" way, he owns a whole parking lot of luxury cars, because the number of cars is too large, many luxury cars have long been full of dust.
When collecting famous wines, his methods were much the same, and later after the U.S. army entered Iraq, he exposed the private villas of Udai, in which there were countless rare famous wines.
In fact, Udai's hobby is not so much luxury cars and wines as it is spending money.
Because if you take a closer look, it is not difficult to find that in addition to cars and wine, valuable famous paintings and various rare antiques are also within the scope of his collection.
In 1996, Uday suffered an assassination, and although he was lucky enough to retrieve a life, he was left with a lifelong disability and could no longer live without a wheelchair.
Even so, he remained unchanged until July 22, 2003.
In 2003, the United States launched the Iraq War, and among the most wanted warrants they issued, it was Saddam Hussein and his sons who ranked in the top 3.
In order to hide his whereabouts, Uday showed no mercy and executed 17 bodyguards.
But Uday's trail was revealed, as the owner of the villa he chose to hide, Zaidan, did not hesitate to betray his position to the U.S. military in order to get the bounty and to get revenge.
The action of the US military was even more crisp and clean, and soon gathered heavy troops, directly washed the ground with anti-tank missiles, and blasted the villa into rubble.
Uday, a generation of demons who have been running amok in Iraq for 39 years, finally fell at the hands of a more ruthless opponent than himself.