Ammar Essam
@ammaressam0.bsky.social
• Human rights defender
• Interested in politics,climate change
• Tech hobbyist - Liberal
• basra ,lraq
• Interested in politics,climate change
• Tech hobbyist - Liberal
• basra ,lraq
And it wasn’t about the environment or anything — it was revenge. The Marsh Arabs had rebelled against him, so he went after their home. By doing that, he wiped out a culture that had lived in sync with water, reeds, and mud for over five thousand years.
October 10, 2025 at 6:27 PM
And it wasn’t about the environment or anything — it was revenge. The Marsh Arabs had rebelled against him, so he went after their home. By doing that, he wiped out a culture that had lived in sync with water, reeds, and mud for over five thousand years.
He rerouted the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, and almost all of the wetlands — like 95% — just vanished. What used to be this massive green paradise turned into cracked, dry desert land.
October 10, 2025 at 6:26 PM
He rerouted the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, and almost all of the wetlands — like 95% — just vanished. What used to be this massive green paradise turned into cracked, dry desert land.
his regime after the First Iraq war. ( Photo by Nik Wheeler/Corbis via Getty Images)
September 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM
his regime after the First Iraq war. ( Photo by Nik Wheeler/Corbis via Getty Images)