The iraqi military adopted the name anfal in 1988 for its genocidal campaign against the kurds in northern iraq. To a large measure this report is based on testimonies obtained in iraqi kurdistan from eyewitnesses to and often victims of anfalrelated abuses. Kurdish peshmerga on the anfal campaign in iraq jstor. The anfal campaign consisted of eight distinct operations lasting until september 1988. Introduction the kurdish genocide was mounted between february and september 1988 on the winding up of the iraniraq war. Commonname, and the articles sources seem to call it variants of that. Pdf tthis article argues that kurdish society historically enabled the rise of charismatic women. A reconstruction program to aid people in returning to their lands was launched in 1991. Iraq, kurdish genocide, anfal, identity, ethnic cleansing. In 1988 the iraqi regime launched the anfal campaigns against the. The kurdish genocide in iraq alanfal campaign video. This book examines kurdish womens experience of violence, destruction, the disappearance of loved ones, and incarceration during the anfal campaign. The halabja chemical attack also known as the halabja massacre or bloody friday, was a massacre against the kurdish people that took place on 16 march 1988, during the closing days of the iraniraq war in the kurdish city of halabja in iraq. In the case of the alanfal campaign, the systematic extermination of the kurds was the effect of a war, an extremist ideology, and the brutal tactics of a dictator.
Adding up, the charges against our cases convicts alanfal case are. Genocide against the kurds university of michigan law school. The anfal campaign was the culmination of longstanding efforts by the baath regime. The 1988 anfal campaign in iraqi kurdistan sciences po.
The destruction of land and forced migration during the anfal attacks against the kurds in iraq in the late 1980s has been reported to have severe consequences for agricultural development. To assess the agricultural situation in the duhok governorate during the preanfal a, postanfal b. No evidence presented that anfal genocide is not the wp. Start merging the files with the corresponding button. Kurdish involvement in the iraniraq war seems to have made iraqs genocidal enterprise possible. Saddam hussein abd almajid altikriti was born in the town of alawja, km 8 mi from the iraqi town of tikrit, to a family of shepherds from the albegat clan group, a subgroup of the albu nasir. Cropland changes in times of conflict, reconstruction, and. Pdf on aug 26, 2015, nicholas shallcross and others published kurdistan regional government assessment find, read and cite all the research you need on researchgate. The halabja chemical attack also known as the halabja massacre or bloody friday, was a massacre against the kurdish people that took place on 16 march. Patriotic union of kurdistan puk militias joining forces, with iranian support.
The attack was part of the alanfal campaign in kurdistan, as well as part of. Throughout this period, the standard iraqi strategy was toattack k urdish settlements with ar tillery and airstrikes, conduct mass killings on the spot, and car t off the remainder of the population for processing further south. A leading member of the revolutionary arab socialist baath party, and later, the baghdadbased baath party and its. His mother, subha tulfah almussallat, named her newborn son. Central to the atrocities that were perpetrated against iraqi kurds was the anfal campaign. The iraqi regime was used to adopt old arabic islamic names. Select multiple pdf files and merge them in seconds. During six months in 1988, tens of thousands of kurds, the vast majority civilians, died during an iraqi counterinsurgency campaign codenamed the anfal. In addition, anfal was difficult to narrate from a kurdish national ist point of view because some kurds.
Anfal, in other words, was a campaign to 1 incapacitate the kurdish national movement by razing rural kurdistan and killing all its actual or potential fighters, and 2 remove that movements main prize, kirkuk, by exterminating that particular regions kurdish village population. The term yadasteroman novel biography refers to a blend of mem oir and. The 1988 anfal campaign in iraqi kurdistan sciences po mass. Thirty years ago today, theniraqi president saddam hussein started operation anfal, his murderous campaign against the populations in northern iraq. From february to september 1988, iraqi kurds were subjected to a genocidal operation by the iraqi government, known as the anfal operation. Anfal was the codename used by the iraqi government in public pronouncements and. The 1988 anfal campaign in iraqi kurdistan sciences po violence. Click in the file selection box at the top of the page and select the files to merge.
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