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lareviewofbooks
April 16, 2018
... genocides in their history, and they remember all of it through oral tradition. Early Muslim rulers considered them devil-worshipping infidels. The Ottomans were especially vicious, massacring hundreds at a time, ransacking villages, and forcing mass conversions to Islam. Saddam Hussein did not spareÃâà...
Newsweek
April 16, 2018
Israelis woke up on Saturday morning to news that the U.S., France, and Great Britain had attacked Syria, in response to the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government against opposition forces. The initial reaction by Israelis on the street was: Finally, there is an American President who stood byÃâà...
The Real News Network
April 16, 2018
Of course we can't forget that while Saddam Hussein was committing genocide against Kurds in Iraq, which are different politically and speak different language, and different culturally. But when he was carrying out a genocide in Iraq the U.S. was supporting Saddam Hussein. So we see throughout historyÃâà...
Rudaw
April 14, 2018
April 14 marks Anfal memorial day in the Kurdistan Region, remember the deaths of 182,000 Kurds who were systematically executed by Saddam Hussein's Baath regime. The Anfal campaign took place over eight phases — beginning in 1986, reaching its peak in 1988, and culminating in the closingÃâà...
Rudaw
April 14, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Kurds in the Middle East are in "grave danger" and in the midst of genocide like the Anfal that culminated 30 years ago, according ... people remember 182,000 Kurds who were systematically rounded up and driven to southern Iraq and executed by Saddam Hussein's Baath regime.
Rudaw
April 13, 2018
... relatives in the genocide. “I don't know if they are buried in this graveyard or not,” he said in a cemetery in Kalar. “I do not know to this day whether this one is the grave of my brother Khalid, or that one." Some 182,000 Kurds were killed in the Anfal genocidal campaigns of the regime of Saddam HusseinÃâà...
Rudaw
April 9, 2018
Post a New Comment. Comment as a guest or Login for more enhanced interactive experience. Post to Facebook. Tags : Barzani genocide, genocide, Saddam Hussein, Kurdish history. Print Email to a friend. Save this storyÃâà...
PennLive.com
April 9, 2018
War with Iraq: The day Saddam Hussein's statue came down, 2003 ... On March 19, 2003, the United States and coalition forces, initiated a war with Iraq, which was under the control of President Saddam Hussein. ... In August 2006 he was charged with the genocide of Iraqi Kurds in the late 1980s. On Nov.
Kurdistan24
March 18, 2018
Kurds commemorate positive achievements during this month as well as unforgettable injustice and genocide. The former Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein conducted the Anfal campaign over a three-year period: from 1986 to 1989. It was a military operation that aimed to exterminate the Kurdish population in Iraq andÃâà...
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