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| − | '''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 | + | '''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 | |author= Stuart Notholt | ||
|title= Fields of Fire: An Atlas of Ethnic Conflict | |title= Fields of Fire: An Atlas of Ethnic Conflict | ||
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Operation Anfal (also known as al-Anfal Campaign) was the genocide of approximately 180,000 Iraqi minority Kurds,[1] 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.[2] Measures employed by Saddam's Iraq included gassing, disappearances, massacres, forced resettlement and destruction of villages.[3] Apart from the killing of civilians, over 4,000 villages,[4] 1,754 schools, 270 hospitals, 2,450 mosques and 27 churches were destroyed.[5]
References
- ↑ Iraq to hang 'Chemical Ali' Associated Press, June 25, 2007
- ↑ Stuart Notholt (2008). Fields of Fire: An Atlas of Ethnic Conflict. Troubador Publishing Ltd, p4.10. ISBN 1906510474.
- ↑ Jonathan Fox (2005). Religion, Civilization, and Civil War. Lexington Books, p261. ISBN 0739112775.
- ↑ Michael Rubin, Are Kurds a pariah minority? Social Research, Spring, 2003
- ↑ List of the churches been demolished by Saddam Hussein’s regime