Survivors of the Anfal Kurdish genocide long for closure
Al Jazeera
Thirty-three years after mass killings of Kurds in northern Iraq, families struggle to identify and bury the victims.
Sulaimaniyah, Iraq – Adil Majeed looked distraught as he smoked a cigarette and recounted the devastating events of the late 1980s Anfal military offensive. Unleashed by the former Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein against Kurdish people in the north, the campaign killed at least 100,000 Kurds, mostly civilians, with some estimates suggesting 180,000 people died. Thousands went missing and hundreds of villages were destroyed. Rights organisations say the Anfal campaign was a systematic ethnic cleansing amounting to genocide.More Related News