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Iraq accused: a case of genocide


Author : Judith Miller
Editor : New York Times Magazine Date & Place : 1993, New York
Preface : Pages : 6
Traduction : ISBN :
Language : EnglishFormat : 255x310 mm
FIKP's Code : Br. Ang. 1560Theme : General

Iraq accused: a case of genocide

Iraq a case of genocide accused

Government documents captured by rebels outline
Saddam Hussein's murderous campaign against his own country’s four million Kurds.

In an underground facility, somewhere in the United States, researchers are going through a mountain of Iraqi files that could provide the legal basis for the first case of genocide ever to be brought before the World Court.
The materials, captured by Kurdish rebels in the uprising against Saddam Hussein immediately following the Persian Gulf war, provide the first written documentation of a campaign of terror waged for a decade against the four million Kurds in Iraq, a campaign that reached its zenith between March and August of 1988.
Like Gestapo files and those of the Stasi, the East German intelligence agency that trained Iraq's security police, the Iraqi documents set forth in chillingly bureaucratic language the "liquidations," "expulsions" and "transfers" of Kurdish victims, who …

Judith Miller is the staff writer at The New York Times Magazine.

Photographs by Susan Meiselas / Magnum

Iraq a case of genocide accused

The New York Times

The New York Times Magazine
January 3, 1993 / section 6
Iraq a case of genocide accused
By Judith Miller

Iraq a case of genocide accused



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