Iraq's crime of genocide : the Anfal campaign against the Kurds
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Iraq's crime of genocide : the Anfal campaign against the Kurds
（Human rights watch books）
Yale University Press, c1995
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-364) and index
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Iraq's 1988 campaign of extermination against the Kurds living within its borders resulted in the death of at least 50,000 and possibly as many as 100,000 people, many of them women and children. This book from Human Rights Watch investigates the so-called Anfal campaign and concludes that this campaign constituted genocide against the Kurds. The book is the result of research by a team of Human Rights Watch / Middle East investigators who analyzed 18 tons of captured Iraqi government documents (of which ten documents are reproduced in an appendix) and carried out field interviews with more than 350 witnesses, most of them survivors of the Anfal campaign.
It confirms that the campaign was characterized by gross violations of human rights, including mass summary executions and disappearance of many tens of thousands of non-combatants; the widespread use of chemical weapons, among them mustard gas and nerve agents that caused thousands to die; the arbitrary jailing and warehousing of tens of thousands of women, children and elderly people for months, in conditions of extreme deprivation and without judicial order; the forced displacement of hundreds of thousands of villagers to barren resettlement camps after demolition of their homes; and the destruction of some 2000 villages along with their schools, mosques, farms and power stations. The book is an indictment of the Iraqi government's carefully planned and executed programme to destroy a people, a recounting of crimes against innocents. "Human Rights Watch / Middle East" was established in 1989 to monitor and promote observance of internationally recognized human rights in the Middle East and North Africa.
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