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New page: '''Operation Anfal''' (also known as '''al-Anfal Campaign''') was the genocide of approximately 180,000 Iraqi minority Kurds,<ref name="IHCA">[http://www.sptimes.com/2007/06/25/Worldandna...
'''Operation Anfal''' (also known as '''al-Anfal Campaign''') was the genocide of approximately 180,000 Iraqi minority Kurds,<ref name="IHCA">[http://www.sptimes.com/2007/06/25/Worldandnation/Iraq_to_hang__Chemica.shtml Iraq to hang 'Chemical Ali'] Associated Press, June 25, 2007</ref> planned and executed by [[Saddam Hussein]] and his cousin Ali Hassan al-Majid. From 1986 to 1988, Kurds were systematically murdered mainly with the help of Sunni Arab forces in the Iraqi Army.<ref name="SN">{{cite book
|author= Stuart Notholt
|title= Fields of Fire: An Atlas of Ethnic Conflict
|publisher= Troubador Publishing Ltd
|location=
|year= 2008
|pages= p4.10
|isbn= 1906510474
|oclc=
|doi=
}}</ref> Measures employed by Saddam's Iraq included gassing, disappearances, massacres, forced resettlement and destruction of villages.<ref name="JF">{{cite book
|author= Jonathan Fox
|title= Religion, Civilization, and Civil War
|publisher= Lexington Books
|location=
|year= 2005
|pages= p261
|isbn= 0739112775
|oclc=
|doi=
}}</ref> Apart from the killing of civilians, over 4,000 villages,<ref>Michael Rubin, [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2267/is_1_70/ai_102140955/pg_4 Are Kurds a pariah minority?]
Social Research, Spring, 2003</ref> 1,754 schools, 270 hospitals, 2,450 mosques and 27 churches were destroyed.<ref>[http://www.capiraq.org/en/News_Reports/Demolshed_Churches_Eng.pdf List of the churches been demolished by Saddam Hussein’s regime]</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
[[Category:Genocide]]
|author= Stuart Notholt
|title= Fields of Fire: An Atlas of Ethnic Conflict
|publisher= Troubador Publishing Ltd
|location=
|year= 2008
|pages= p4.10
|isbn= 1906510474
|oclc=
|doi=
}}</ref> Measures employed by Saddam's Iraq included gassing, disappearances, massacres, forced resettlement and destruction of villages.<ref name="JF">{{cite book
|author= Jonathan Fox
|title= Religion, Civilization, and Civil War
|publisher= Lexington Books
|location=
|year= 2005
|pages= p261
|isbn= 0739112775
|oclc=
|doi=
}}</ref> Apart from the killing of civilians, over 4,000 villages,<ref>Michael Rubin, [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2267/is_1_70/ai_102140955/pg_4 Are Kurds a pariah minority?]
Social Research, Spring, 2003</ref> 1,754 schools, 270 hospitals, 2,450 mosques and 27 churches were destroyed.<ref>[http://www.capiraq.org/en/News_Reports/Demolshed_Churches_Eng.pdf List of the churches been demolished by Saddam Hussein’s regime]</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
[[Category:Genocide]]