Sayed Mahdi Al-Hakim - Tracked by Saddam killed in Sudan | Documentary

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The Journey of Sayed Mahdi Alhakeem takes him from Najaf to Baghdad to as far as having to flee his own country and seek refuge overseas. With the Baath regime tracking his moves, they manage to fulfil their mission and assassinate him at the Hilton Hotel lobby in Sudan at last.

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[0:00]sayin Matty al-hakim is recognized as a pioneer of Islamic thought and

[0:04]scholarship amongst Muslim societies in both the Middle East and the West

[0:12]he was born in Najaf Iraq in the 1940s as the son

[0:14]of the grand ayatollah sayyed moss in al Hakim in his early

[0:20]years said matthew was exposed to high levels of Islamic and secular

[0:24]education and was therefore introduced to lessons as a student under the

[0:28]guidance of his father as well as with other scholars from within

[0:32]the hoser elmia in Najaf the hoser acted as the central point

[0:38]of the seminaries were multiple Shia scholars were responsible for regulating religious

[0:42]policies under the leadership of Sayed Matty al Hakeem's father as dynamics

[0:48]within the Iraqi political sphere developed the country saw the uprising of

[0:53]the Arab socialist Baath Party in Iraq in the 1960s the Baath

[0:57]Party encouraged concepts of pan Arab nationalism and secularism ideologies which clash

[1:05]with that of the traditional Islamic scholars the ideological divide soon turned

[1:12]into targeted repression of the Shia population particularly the advancement of the

[1:20]scholarly circles over the coming decades Iraq faced wars against neighboring Iran

[1:25]in the 1980s and the innovation of Kuwait in 1990 further escalating

[1:31]tensions within Iraqi politics policy and people yet in such a time

[1:37]of grave distrust under the regime the scholars of the seminaries played

[1:43]a crucial role in being spokespeople for the palpable persecution and marginalization

[1:47]of a Shiite dominant population the al-hakim family knew there was an

[1:54]important role to play in the leadership of the people following in

[2:00]the path of the scholars said Mattie al-hakim was sent by his

[2:04]father to act as his representative in bhagavad in the 1960s upon

[2:09]his arrival he formed a league of high-ranking scholars to actively engage

[2:14]the community in discussions and events addressing social religious and political affairs

[2:21]he was a Muslim scholar obviously because he was brought up in

[2:27]the house of Imam Ayatollah machine al Hakim he was a student

[2:34]scholar of Islamic jurisprudence and many people believe that he finished the

[2:41]requirements for the position of being a knight Allah what he was

[2:50]never now seeing that because he was humble by nature he wanted

[2:55]to relate to ordinary people without having any sort of title or

[3:01]supremacy to make him treated differently from the ordinary P man in

[3:07]the streets so his father found him good person responsible of carrying

[3:19]the responsibility in Baghdad the capital of Iraq so in 1964 he

[3:25]migrated from major to Baghdad in order to look after affairs of

[3:29]the Shia's in the government because she as was deprived greatly in

[3:34]Iraq unfortunately the northern area because of sectarian government you know they

[3:42]used to build the schools that build the roads the factories and

[3:48]middle and South of Iraq were deprived of those services sideman Hakim

[3:54]came to Baghdad living and studying and from the first few days

[4:00]after he settled representing the house of Najaf in Baghdad people started

[4:09]flogging to greet him to talk to him because he has got

[4:15]this open-minded and [Music] transparent and friendly approach to people from any

[4:22]denomination not only the Shias of Iraq but the city leaders the

[4:26]non-muslims even the Communists at the time who were active in the

[4:34]streets of Baghdad and by that he was at that time there

[4:38]was mainly indoctrination and approach to the society and rather than politicization

[4:46]so he was leading the prayers and he was his language was

[4:51]simple so when he speaks you would always feel attracted and attached

[4:58]what he was saying he does not bore you and and also

[5:02]he has deep views of things deep so deep that he can

[5:11]simplify complicated matters so that is what makes his discourse acceptable and

[5:19]will come by the people the merger Emma Marshall and Hakim was

[5:26]having a mission to open up the teachings of Ahlul Bayt to

[5:31]the Iraqi community at large and at the time it started with

[5:39]encouraging all the mosques and Hussein years not only in Baghdad Baghdad

[5:44]and other Iraq cities to have library so through the libraries spread

[5:51]of well recommended books the idea was to use the library books

[6:04]to help the youth of Iraq to understand the religion and also

[6:07]give them the immunity again as the communist ideologies which were awaiting

[6:13]invading Iraq at the time after 1958 when the coup of Abdul

[6:21]Kalam Azam happened and the king was killed the situation in Iraq

[6:27]was different because after that in 1959 the Communist Party had overwhelming

[6:33]majority all over Iraq and they killed a lot of people in

[6:38]different parts machine morale in Kirkuk in other areas and then the

[6:46]challenge for the house and for the media was great and she

[6:50]said mother Hakim was naturally participating in those events and he try

[6:58]his best to reform the situation and protect the Olimar the Imams

[7:04]of the messages students in the house from being misguided say Matti

[7:12]al Hakim was regularly encouraging smaller communities to bond particularly through hosting

[7:17]speeches at people's houses and commemorating the religious anniversaries of birthdays or

[7:21]martyrdom of the infallible mat-su mean during this period he also utilized

[7:29]his position of authority by encouraging larger political denominations to focus on

[7:33]uniting the people of Iraq in order to build a more civilized

[7:39]modern and unified society his efforts were instrumental in encouraging university graduates

[7:44]from Baghdad to work with in various sectors developing their own capabilities

[7:49]and skills and eventually working together on establishing who far university say

[7:55]it Mattie's efforts were expanding and his impact grew among the communities

[8:00]in Iraq however it was not long before the government began to

[8:04]notice the vast influence his activities had on the people of Iraq

[8:10]afraid of how this influence might affect the government's political decisions they

[8:14]resorted to fabricating false claims again same acti in 1969 the major

[8:23]uprising in Iraq in 1920 against the colonial rule of the empires

[8:30]mainly Britain at the time was under the guidance and the encouragement

[8:37]from the house and that was a political activity to ensure Iraq

[8:42]is free from colonial invasion and occupation occupation so that Iraq is

[8:51]can decide on their destination so politics and religion have always worked

[8:57]hand in hand but with the guidance of the House nigev they

[9:03]were trying always to strike a balance where there would be no

[9:09]explotation of the religion in the name of politics or politicians you

[9:13]making use of the of the situation and the people's religious feeling

[9:19]to exploit the situation the people who have got interests in Iraq

[9:29]so the danger of such activity to become an impediment to support

[9:35]of their ideas being secular socialist like the other bath party ideas

[9:43]or the communist ideas or any other non religious ideas this was

[9:48]acting as a barrier and with during the use of Iraq men

[9:55]and women the immunity and the defense again as falling to serve

[10:01]in these parties so whoever behind the bath party or the the

[10:06]Communist Party so the danger that if the movement propagated by the

[10:15]activity of same Anil Hakim or the other scholars like him in

[10:19]Iraq it means that Araki masses will turn towards the religion in

[10:22]a lightened way and that will be a danger to the powers

[10:30]interested in keeping Iraq under their influence under their control he knew

[10:37]their policy because we suffered that in 1963 when bath party came

[10:42]for six months into power and then Abdul Salam RF made a

[10:49]coup against them so they were very bad by putting innocent people

[10:56]in jail torturing the people getting the the girls the women torturing

[11:02]them abusing them so they know the attitude of Baath Party is

[11:05]very very bad attitude that is why when Baath Party came well

[11:13]he realized that if this party will control the situation in Iraq

[11:18]they will eradicate all the religious activities in Iraq the bath party

[11:22]came just to destroy the house of nigev and anima to be

[11:33]pressurized and they should not be no freedom for them they came

[11:40]against let's say religious views of the people represented by the merger

[11:48]you know is a symbol for the she has of the Iraq

[11:54]and she has of the world so they came to crush and

[11:59]destroy that marriage a.m.

[12:01]they show on the television that one of the opponent to the

[12:07]regime to Barton regime came on the television and said that I

[12:13]was spying against the government I was plotting against the government and

[12:22]I got connection with America or Shia Iran to to overthrow the

[12:31]regime and he mentioned same method Hakim as part of the group

[12:39]been plotting against the government so that's all does mean that the

[12:51]government showed the people that look same Ali Hakim who is the

[12:57]son and presentative of Allah CMS and Hakim he is doing these

[13:02]unwanted activities spying plotting against the government so what do you think

[13:13]we are going to do to him of course we have to

[13:18]get him to the trial and we have to sentence him to

[13:26]death the intelligence agencies from the worst and America decided that this

[13:32]danger has to be stemmed and they prepared the grounds for Saddam

[13:37]Hussein being an aggressive and ruthless and good soldier to obey the

[13:44]orders from outside to start having major influence in the bath party

[13:51]actually taking over control of the bath party after he executed more

[13:58]than half of the Supreme Council of the bath party got rid

[14:00]of the President Hamid Hassan Becker at the time and he became

[14:08]the president and after that the attacks on mosque on Hassan years

[14:12]on any youth activity in the name of region was either infiltrated

[14:17]or demolished completely and ruthlessly Michelle Affleck a syrian philosopher sociologists in

[14:25]Arab nationalist originally founded the Baath Party in 1947 in the his

[14:30]ideas were fundamental in establishing the foundations upon which the Baath Party

[14:36]had built itself the development of this political movement originated from the

[14:42]desire to unite people on Arab nationalism however following the 1963 coup

[14:48]by the government of the Baath Party in Syria Alex position was

[14:52]weakened and he was forced to resign this led to his decision

[14:57]to flee the country to Lebanon and finally settle in Iraq in

[15:03]1968 where he was elected the Secretary General of the Iraqi Baath

[15:06]Party although the Baath Party in Iraq was first established in 1951

[15:10]by 4ad al raqqa be and continue to operate in unity with

[15:16]the original Baath Party until a disagreement led to a split in

[15:21]1966 two years later in 1968 saddam hussein played a key role

[15:28]in the coup that caused the Baath Party to rise to power

[15:31]his continued efforts backed up by America and the West enabled him

[15:38]to finally secure power and become the president of Iraq from 1979

[15:45]until 2003 during this period of time the Bharathi rule led people

[15:49]to live in the fear anybody who opposed the Baath regime would

[15:54]face fatal consequences which led to save Matty al Hakim decision to

[16:02]leave the country that impacted a lot on his life because then

[16:06]suddenly from Iraq from Baghdad from nigev he found himself where in

[16:12]Pakistan a country whose whose language he did not speak whose people

[16:18]he did not know closely probably he knew some of the ulema

[16:24]who were who had been students in Najaf before but apart from

[16:28]that it is a small world a different and strange words for

[16:34]him he used to be very active they tried to show the

[16:41]people there that he was apprised and all Iraqi people were what

[16:49]were oppressed by the Baath regime and you see see what what

[16:53]they did to my father what they do to me they tried

[16:58]to smear my reputation by saying that I am spying with with

[17:08]the enemies against Iraq so he utilized the [Music] relationship with the

[17:13]merger a year in order to address that issue they asked him

[17:18]well Islam calls for social justice and socialism also call for social

[17:24]justice so what is difference between justice in Islam and justice in

[17:29]socialism so he gave very nice and easy to understand answer he

[17:39]said if somebody is one eyed and one eye is blind so

[17:42]there is two ways to make equality either the good I will

[17:48]make it a blind so both eyes are blind so now both

[17:55]are equal or we treat the sick I and that I will

[17:57]be all right so both eyes are all right Islam call that

[18:02]both eyes to be all right socialism say you know both eyes

[18:10]should be blind what he means actually in socialism people are equal

[18:15]in poverty all of them are poor there is no rich in

[18:16]Islam everybody is satisfied there is rich and Richard there is no

[18:23]poor well when he left Iraq he went over through Jordan some

[18:30]say through Saudi Arabia to Pakistan and in Pakistan he had a

[18:33]warm welcome and he was well known there and then after that

[18:36]because of his affiliation with the Arabic speaking communities went to the

[18:43]Gulf and then the emirate he started some activities established the ideology

[18:50]a free for the shia of UAE and then there was the

[18:58]signal that saddam was going to send people to assassinate him so

[19:01]he had to leave the united arab emirates after working for probably

[19:08]ten years old probably ten years ten twelve years he came to

[19:13]london and it is only in London that I came in contact

[19:19]with him he left his wife and some of his children were

[19:23]quite young back in in Dubai and he carried on his activity

[19:32]in London because of the often flexible environment and obviously because of

[19:40]the good security in the British Isles he could move around the

[19:46]Muslim communities and also he found the welcome and that's when I

[19:50]joined his activities in the early 80s when he started to rally

[19:56]the Iraqi people to work against the dictatorship of Saddam on the

[20:03]Baath Party and from then onwards various activities started so in in

[20:12]in okay when he came he he started by by talking first

[20:18]discussing the his projects with the various people and he would gather

[20:23]people at his residence at his house and he would speak his

[20:29]mind out I want to do this what do you think and

[20:34]you would seek opinion and advice as I said he was a

[20:36]man and of earth down to earth man where he would always

[20:44]seek advice and also share his ideas with the others say Matti

[20:47]Hakim purchased a building with the support of Kuwaiti businessman who believed

[20:52]in his mission the building houses organization the al-bayt Islamic League and

[20:58]also became a hub for the community known as the Apple Beit

[21:01]Islamic Center at the time Saiyan met these two main aims were

[21:08]to focus on Islamic propagation and to address issues of Iraqi politics

[21:15]from the 1980s onwards many times he called me and told adults

[21:21]that the Eid he told him to to try to protect himself

[21:35]because there were a lot of applause for his assassination and when

[21:39]he asked who is behind them they said of course in archaeology

[21:44]because American regime has got a lot of diplomatic there and a

[21:55]lot of intelligent people in London so many times they discover that

[22:01]he was the target of assassination so they many times warned him

[22:10]against that so he asked them what do you want me to

[22:14]do I can't sit home and just to protect myself I am

[22:21]an activist I have to tell my people what is going on

[22:30]I have to lead them against the regime they said well at

[22:34]least try to get bodyguards in order to protect you he refused

[22:38]that idea and many times I saw him and I've been with

[22:46]him as well he was alone he was invited at my house

[22:53]for dinner and we were having dinner and there was a third

[22:56]friend with us and then he said I wish I could get

[23:03]somebody to intervene in order to stop this bloodshed of the war

[23:06]and then I I don't know how we were talking and then

[23:11]I said I had received me as was it I was editor

[23:15]of al Allen magazine which was Arabic weekly magazine and I had

[23:22]an invitation from Sudan to attend their conference or Islamic movement there

[23:30]but I was not want I was not ready to go I

[23:37]didn't want to go so I spoke to the hosts the person

[23:39]who was there was presented here the from the group of the

[23:48]rate dr.

[23:50]Hasan - Ravi and I said I'm not going but there is

[23:53]a better candidate who's he and I told him see this should

[23:58]be no problem and then I was let me speak to Sudan

[24:01]and then he went and he came back the next day and

[24:03]he said yes fine there's no problem bring means passport he had

[24:09]the invitation to go to Sudan to participate in the combine the

[24:18]National Religious front conference and his hope was trying to encourage the

[24:25]Arabs to pressurize Saddam Hussein to stop the war against Iran and

[24:30]he was hoping also to express the nature of the Saddam regime

[24:38]to the Arabs to see how Iraqis are suffering badly from the

[24:44]heavy-handed and the ruthless bloody regime of Saddam Hussein we sat with

[24:50]him and he asked us what do you think should I go

[24:57]or should I turn it down this this invitation many of us

[25:00]say it's not it's not good for him to go at this

[25:09]time and when he said why I said well we know that

[25:14]Iran has got a lot of security men of Iraqi regime there

[25:18]so so please don't go they say look I have to I

[25:24]got a message I have to get it true to the people

[25:31]ultimately he was invited to attend a conference in Sudan and he

[25:43]was asked by hasanat Ravi to have a word with logical Maggie

[25:48]the president at that time and makes the relation good between hasanat

[25:53]Urabe and saad al mahdi so they invited him for the conference

[25:57]and the aim was more than the conference but then for reason

[26:04]which is not known why there was no proper security for him

[26:09]so what happened that one night she came back that was Sunday

[26:18]17th of January 88 he came back from the conference tried to

[26:24]get the keys for his room and that Hotel assassinate shot him

[26:34]by two bullets in his head and he died immediately his cousin

[26:41]said Abdul Hakim was with him they tried to protect him they

[26:46]shot him in his legs so then when they try to get

[26:54]help we get the police but that time the assassin away his

[26:59]brutal assassination was a shock for everyone there was an initial confusion

[27:05]as it was not clear who had carried out to this crime

[27:08]the Sudanese government did not put out any formal statements on the

[27:14]attack until hours after Sayyad Maddy al-hakim had been killed this ambiguity

[27:19]raised many questions and left people pointing fingers at different parties further

[27:24]claims stated that two men that later on escaped in a car

[27:30]with diplomatic plates carried out the assassination Tehran radio said the plates

[27:35]belong to the Iraqi embassy whereas the spokesperson for the Iraqi mission

[27:40]in Cairo denied the claim and instead accused the Iranians of the

[27:44]assassination it was not until later on however the Hassan Al Torabi

[27:49]a Minister of Justice publicly admitted that an Iraqi agent had been

[27:53]sent by the government of Iraq to carry out this mission later

[28:00]it became clear that there was an Iraqi security man team apparently

[28:06]they were dispatched from Iraq specifically to go to Khartoum and to

[28:11]target the saying it who was staying at the Hilton Hilton he

[28:17]was staying there and he had seen already he had already met

[28:25]with the doctors and to Robbie and Hamid use of Lucifer Hamid

[28:29]some of the officials the the hosts it was a great shock

[28:35]and loss to the community because he was becoming like figurehead riding

[28:41]Iraqis around him from various sects whether Arabs Kurds Muslims than Muslims

[28:49]and that was a major blow to the activity which was being

[28:54]polarized to stand up against the Saddam regime I think a delegation

[29:08]went from Iran to Sudan to collect the body and then he

[29:13]was given a big funeral income where he is buried now at

[29:19]say the Fatima Muslim was shrine so every time I go to

[29:26]there I always pass by his grave and read some Quran for

[29:29]him when his body it was taken back to be buried in

[29:36]Iran because he was not allowed to be buried in Niger for

[29:38]myself because of the taboo from the regime millions of people gathered

[29:49]to participate in his funeral which by the local standards of the

[29:53]people in Iran at the time only happened when a grand major

[29:57]Ayatollah dies in and calm and the people from all over Iran

[30:04]came to participate in his funeral once once you give up your

[30:09]personal ambitions then you are you you position yourself in a much

[30:13]reconsider Terry position you can become you can become a catalyst for

[30:23]good because you have dissociated yourself from your personal desires and pleasure

[30:27]and ego and then you would put the interest of the community

[30:34]above your own personal needs he was considering himself as a servant

[30:41]to the humanity first and a servant to the teaching of a

[30:43]little bait second and many times used to say just use me

[30:48]as a bridge let me go into this activity or in this

[30:53]project and whatever happens to me even if I die in the

[30:56]middle of this project as long as you carry on the flag

[31:02]and make use of the the project that's what what matters to

[31:07]me and then when he was waiting for the plane he rang

[31:13]me up from the airport asking me for forgiveness because I advised

[31:18]him against that trip and he was hoping that I wasn't cross

[31:25]with him if if he is going to go to this conference

[31:27]and I might fly was not well Who am I to ask

[31:31]for my forgiveness was only really for the love and the concern

[31:38]about what might happen to you and you said as long as

[31:40]I am and the way of Allah don't worry about me so

[31:46]I can remember these start would love his last words [Music] you

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