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Iraqi forces arrested Ajaj Ahmed Hardan, the "executioner" of Nugra Salman prison, accused of genocide and torture against ...
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A man accused of torturing and executing Kurds in a remote southern Iraqi prison during the ...
Iraq has arrested the man accused of overseeing torture and executions at Nugra Salman prison during the genocidal Anfal ...
KDP bloc marks 42nd Anfal anniversary, demands Iraqi govt compensate Barzani victims' families. Calls crime 'heinous act against humanity,' warns of resurgent chauvinism threatening Iraq's unity.
One of them, Saddam's cousin Ali Hassan al-Majid, who led the Anfal campaign, faces genocide charges, while the others are charged with crimes against humanity and war crimes. In other developments: ...
Anfal was the culmination of a longstanding policy of Arabisation in areas now referred to as “disputed territories” in Iraq. The areas spread over an oil-rich belt that straddles the borders ...
In April, ousted dictator Saddam Hussein was charged with genocide and crimes against humanity for his role 1988's Anfal campaign against Iraq's Kurdish population. Now, as Iraqis wait for the ...
Anfal is a genocide that never ends, Kurds say as they continue their fight for recognition Graves of the victims of the Anfal campaign by Steve Sweeney in Kalar, Iraqi Kurdistan THE genocide of the ...
The Anfal military campaign ended in September 1988 when Saddam’s regime announced a general amnesty for all Kurds (although they were not permitted to return to “prohibited zones”).
Human rights researchers say the 1988 Iraqi military operations known as al-Anfal (the Spoils) was part of a campaign of genocide by the central government in Baghdad against the mainly Kurdish ...
Defendants in the second Saddam Hussein trial insisted Tuesday that Iraq’s military was attacking Iranian troops and Kurdish rebels only when it launched the Anfal campaign in the 1980s in which ...
Saddam Hussein and others accused in the Anfal trial begin their defense against charges that they were responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of Kurds. They say the Anfal mission ...