Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region
‘Epic’ Serbian Arms Deal Led to Pierced Skulls in Baghdad
The 40 mm M99 grenades - far heavier than the tear gas canisters used by police forces around the world to control civil unrest - arrived in four shipments in 2009, BIRN reveals.
A decade later, they were used by Iraqi government forces to disperse anti-government protesters in the Iraqi capital, to deadly effect.