 Following initial victories, the revolution was held back from continued success by internal divisions as well as a lack of anticipated American support.Saddam's Sunni Arab-dominated Ba'ath Party regime managed to maintain control over the capital of Baghdad and soon largely suppressed the rebels in a brutal campaign conducted by loyalist forces spearheaded by the Iraqi Republican Guard.During the brief, roughly one-month period of unrest, tens of thousands of people died and nearly two million people were displaced.