1) Kurdistan:
14 April is Anfal Genocide Remembrance Day. Named after a passage in the Quran, the Anfal Genocide against Kurds and Assyrians in northern Iraq was perpetrated on the orders of Saddam Hussein, a vile Ba'athist dictator still revered by some Sunni Arabs...

2) At Saddam's direction, his cousin, Ali Hassan al-Majid aka "Chemical Ali", director of the Iraqi Intelligence Service, oversaw the murderous campaigns carried out by the Iraq military...

3) Anfal is a passage that equates to "spoils of war," and the military was told that taking cattle, sheep, goats, money, weapons and WOMEN was legal...

4) By the end of the campaign of Genocide, over 182,000 Kurdish, and over 2,000 Assyrian men, women and children had been murdered by chemical weapon bombings of cities and villages, mass executions of prisoners, and artillery...

5) Tens of thousands of Kurdish and Assyrian refugees would flee Iraq, creating a vast diaspora community in Australia, Europe, the UK, the US, and Canada. Many other refugees would remain in Iran and Turkey...

6) Internationally, only 4 other countries officially recognize Anfal Genocide Remembrance Day: Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and South Korea.

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