March 15, 2021

A man-shaped metal cage device that will be displayed in a new Iraqi museum is shown to reporters in Baghdad

A man-shaped metal cage device that will be displayed in a new Iraqi museum is shown to reporters in Baghdad December 30, 2008. The device was used in the Iraqi Olympic Centre, where Saddam's son Uday used to lock underperforming athletes for weeks at a time and set them naked under the burning sun, the metal searing their flesh. Iraq is preparing to open a new museum that will allow Iraqis to see up close such macabre mementos of mass executions, torture,and other atrocities committed in Saddam's decades-long rule. REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani (IRAQ)

A man-shaped metal cage device that will be displayed in a new Iraqi museum is shown to reporters in Baghdad December 30, 2008. The device was used in the Iraqi Olympic Centre, where Saddam’s son Uday used to lock underperforming athletes for weeks at a time and set them naked under the burning sun, the metal searing their flesh. Iraq is preparing to open a new museum that will allow Iraqis to see up close such macabre mementos of mass executions, torture,and other atrocities committed in Saddam’s decades-long rule. REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani (IRAQ)

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