Al-Anfal+Campaign+(late+1980's)


 * Al Anfal Campaign**
 * Persecutors**

The leader of the Al Anfal Campaing was Ali Hassan al-Majid (cousin of Saddam Hussein). They used ground offensive and aerial bombings.They bomb one of 24 Assyrian churches in 1988 ethnic groups like the Shabaks and Turkmen


 * Victims**

Al Anfal victims were the male adults that were of military service age. In the rural Kurdish area. These attacks were committed with the intent to destroy the Kurdish populations of Iraq more attacks were against the Peshmerga rebels and Kurdish population of Rural Northern Iraq,conducted between 1986 and 1989. 50,000 to 100,000 non-combatant civilians including children and women 4,000 villages were destroyed in Iraqi Kurdistan. and also during 1987 and 1988 villages were exposed to chemical weapons, 1,754 schools and 270 hospitals and 27 churches were destroyed 1986-1989 Iraqi Kurdistan [|Birthday] --Born in 1937 in Takrit, Iraq
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Saddam Hussein's administration wanted the extermination of every living thing human or animal in certain regions of the Kurdish north.The An-Anfal Campaign was the worst act of human abuse that Saddam Hussein ever had done.

After 16 March 1988, one word came to symbolize the tragedy of the Kurds. Halabja is the Kurdish Auschwitz; not because the scale of the massacre was comparable with that of the Nazi death camp, but because the victims were chosen merely because they were Kurdish civilians.

On the 16th of March 1988, Iraqi bombers attacked the Kurdish town of Halabja using chemical weapons and nerve gases such as Tabun and Sarin. These gases left thousands of civilian's dead, many thousands wounded, and tens of thousands of people homeless. The Iraqi government said that the genocide against Kurds is justified by the Quran Islamic Holy Book but it publicly denies that this is its view. Genocide against Kurds is also ignored by the super powers because of political interest.