Kurdistan region commemorates 34 anniversaries of Anfal Genocide of Badinan region
kurdsatnews
Aug 25, 2022
Mourners gather around the coffins of 107 Kurdish prisoners who died in 1988 during the notorious Operation Anfal at a burial ceremony after being returned to their village of Chamchamal in northern Iraq, Tuesday, April 13, 2010.
The Ministry of Martyrs and Anfal Victims Affairs of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRG) said that the Ba'ath regime carried out the seventh and eighth phases of the Anfal campaign in the Badinan region 34 years ago on August 25, 1988. It lasted until September 6, 1988, when hundreds of women, children and people from Badinan were massacred and forcefully transferred to southern Iraqi deserts—resulting in tens of thousands of Kurds going missing.
The ministry also said that "the Ba'ath regime used chemical weapons against civilians in the Anfal process in Badinan." Although the Baathist regime did use chemical weapons against Kurdish civilians on many occasions, most notably starting with the Halabja Chemical Bombardment that killed 5000 thousand civilians, reports of the Baathist regime using chemical weapons in the Badinan region during the Anfal campaign is another crime revealed.
After 60 hearings and within the framework of international agreements, the Iraqi High Criminal Court recognized that the Anfal process was a genocide of the Kurdish people. However, the Anfal Campaign remains to be recognized by prominent states.
The Ministry of Martyrs stressed that they would continue their efforts to recognize the crime of Anfal as genocide internationally.
The Anfal Campaign was a genocidal plan against Iraqi Kurds carried out in eight different phases, each targeting a specific region of the Kurdistan region. the purpose was to eliminate the Kurdish revolutionaries fighting against Saddam Hussein's dictatorial regime. The Kurdish revolutionaries, generally known as the Peshmerga, depended on the villages of the Kurdistan region for their subsistence. The Baathist regime eradicated most of the hamlets, weakened the Peshmerga, and Arabized the Kurdistan region's strategic, oil-rich regions.
The seventh and last phases of Anfal were committed in the Badinan region, where hundreds of villages, communities and settlements were destroyed, and their populations moved to relocation camps in Sulaimani and Erbil. In the Anfal Genocide an estimated 182 civilains, including children, women, the elderly were buried alive, shot or went missing.
According to Kurdistan Genocide Writers Union, "not a single Anfal remain of the Badinan region Anfal genocide is repatriated." The Union asked the Kurdistan region government to ramp up its efforts to bring their remains and create monuments in Duhok, the location of the Anfal Campaign of Badinan.
Commenting on the occasion, the Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani said, "we send our regards to the victim's relatives, and we bow to the innocent lives of the Anfal victims. Barzani also asked the Iraqi federal government to compensate the victims' acquaintances because Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal has recognized the atrocity as genocide.
The ministry also said that "the Ba'ath regime used chemical weapons against civilians in the Anfal process in Badinan." Although the Baathist regime did use chemical weapons against Kurdish civilians on many occasions, most notably starting with the Halabja Chemical Bombardment that killed 5000 thousand civilians, reports of the Baathist regime using chemical weapons in the Badinan region during the Anfal campaign is another crime revealed.
After 60 hearings and within the framework of international agreements, the Iraqi High Criminal Court recognized that the Anfal process was a genocide of the Kurdish people. However, the Anfal Campaign remains to be recognized by prominent states.
The Ministry of Martyrs stressed that they would continue their efforts to recognize the crime of Anfal as genocide internationally.
The Anfal Campaign was a genocidal plan against Iraqi Kurds carried out in eight different phases, each targeting a specific region of the Kurdistan region. the purpose was to eliminate the Kurdish revolutionaries fighting against Saddam Hussein's dictatorial regime. The Kurdish revolutionaries, generally known as the Peshmerga, depended on the villages of the Kurdistan region for their subsistence. The Baathist regime eradicated most of the hamlets, weakened the Peshmerga, and Arabized the Kurdistan region's strategic, oil-rich regions.
The seventh and last phases of Anfal were committed in the Badinan region, where hundreds of villages, communities and settlements were destroyed, and their populations moved to relocation camps in Sulaimani and Erbil. In the Anfal Genocide an estimated 182 civilains, including children, women, the elderly were buried alive, shot or went missing.
According to Kurdistan Genocide Writers Union, "not a single Anfal remain of the Badinan region Anfal genocide is repatriated." The Union asked the Kurdistan region government to ramp up its efforts to bring their remains and create monuments in Duhok, the location of the Anfal Campaign of Badinan.
Commenting on the occasion, the Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani said, "we send our regards to the victim's relatives, and we bow to the innocent lives of the Anfal victims. Barzani also asked the Iraqi federal government to compensate the victims' acquaintances because Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal has recognized the atrocity as genocide.
