Kurdistan President Calls on Int’l. Community to Recognize Anfal as Genocide

ARK News.. Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani has renewed a call for the international recognition of Anfal crimes as genocide against the Kurds.

Barzani made the call in a statement he issued on Tuesday to remember the victims of Anfal at the hand of the Baath regime of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

“As we mark the 32nd anniversary of the infamous Anfal campaign, we remember the many victims who lost their lives in these genocidal and horrific crimes,” the Kurdish president said.

“The Anfal Campaign was among the most vicious crimes of modern history. Women, men, children and the elderly were indiscriminately rounded up and sent to mass murder sites while their villages and communities were bulldozed to the ground. The Anfal Campaign also had a devastating impact on the environment and the living conditions in many areas of the Kurdistan Region.”

More than 180,000 citizens of Kurdistan lost their lives in the campaign, which were an outcome of the racist policies of the former Ba’ath regime in Iraq. It also led to the destruction of thousands of villages and towns across Kurdistan.

“Following the Iraqi Supreme Court’s recognition of the Anfal Campaign as genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, we also urge the international community to do the same and recognize these crimes as genocide. We will continue our efforts to press for an international recognition of the Anfal Campaign as genocide. We will also continue to search for the remains of the victims and bring them back to the Kurdistan Region,” the president added.

Source: BasNews

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