Mass Grave Sites in iraq

Mass graves in Iraq are characterized as unmarked sites containing at least six bodies,Most of the graves discovered to date correspond to one of five major atrocities perpetrated by the regime,about 85% of the mass graves in Iraq contain Iraqi Kurds, who were killed in a genocidal act just because of their ethnicity.

 Ministry of Martyrs and Anfal affairs

Red label: the mass graves of Kurds
Mark Green: Mass Graves of the Arabs
Blue Label: mass graves mixed


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Kurdistan President Barzani’s feeling in Anfal Ceremony

Kurdistan President Masoud Barzani wrote in his Facebook about Anfal Ceremony:I would like to express my feeling when I carried the perished body of an Anfal’s martyr.

I didn’t know the name of the martyr, whether it was a man or a woman, young or old, but I knew that it was an oppressed, innocent martyr. His only crime was that he was a Kurd.

Then I felt that the martyr was among the closest people to me; if it was a man he was my brother, if it was a woman, she was my sister, if it was young, it was my son or daughter.

I was certain that the soul of that martyr and those of all martyrs of Kurdistan were in peace since today Kurdistan is free because of them.

It is unfortunate that today there are still some people in Baghdad who possess that Anfal mindset, and if they could, they would continue the same criminal mentality. Following all these sacrifices, it is imperative that Kurdistan remains free.

It was the greatest honor for me to see a martyr’s mother or father approach me and cry on my chest and tell me that they feel the souls of the martyrs are born again.

He also added :Is there any medal on the face of this earth that is more holy and more important?

Remains of 29 Kurds found in mass graves in central Iraq

ERBIL, March 13 (AKnews) - The remains of 29 Kurds killed in a military campaign in the 1980s by the former Iraqi regime have been found in two mass graves in central Iraq, said the country's Ministry of Human Rights in a statement today.

The remains were discovered and exhumed in two mass graves in the Hamrin Mountain area in Salahaddin province, north of Baghdad.

There are four more mass graves in the same area waiting to be unearthed, according to the announcement.

“In the first mass grave nine remains were discovered, in the second 20... and the search process is ongoing,” the statement read.

The remains were identified as Kurds by their traditional Kurdish clothes.

Anfal, which literally means "spoils of war", refers to Saddam Hussein's genocide efforts to eradicate Kurds from Iraq in 1988. Hundreds of thousands of men, women and children were taken from northern Iraq to the central and southern parts of the country, where they were executed and buried in mass graves.

It is now believed that at least 350 were buried alive in these mass graves.

chemical bomb was found in Halabja

A chemical bomb was found today in a house in Halabja where ‘The Bloody Friday’ took place in 1988.

The bomb belongs to chemical attack bombardment time in the second half of 1980s by former Saddam Hussain’s regime.

“A chemical bomb hit a property of a civilian in 1988 in Halabja,” Halabja mayor Goran Adham spoke to PUKmedia, “it destroyed the house but didn’t explode so that it remained there.”

“The owner builds another house on the destroyed ground after he came back home from the 1991’s uprising. He put the bomb beneath the new house’s foundation,” Adham continued.

The owner informed the local authorities just few days ago after he intends to rebuild the house, he added.

He also stated that they have visited the house and invited a special team of bomb disposal experts to get rid of the bomb.

The Halabja poison gas attack was a genocidal massacre against the Kurdish people that took place on March 16, 1988, during the closing days of the Iran–Iraq War, when chemical weapons were used by the Iraqi government forces in the Kurdish town of Halabja in Iraqi Kurdistan.

The attack killed between 3,200 and 5,000 people, and injured around 7,000 to 10,000 more, most of them civilians. Thousands more died of complications, diseases, and birth defects in the years after the attack. The incident, which has been officially defined as an act of genocide against the Kurdish people in Iraq, was and still remains the largest chemical weapons attack directed against a civilian-populated area in history.

PUKmedia   2012-08-01

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