GERMANY AND GENOCIDE IN IRAQ: persecution and extermination of Kurds and Assyrian Christians
Germany must live up to its evident responsibilities
(Some initiatives, campaigns and actions of the Gesellschaft für bedrohte Volker)
presented at a Press Conference on 25 Feb. 1991 in Jerusalem
When in January 1991, after the beginning of the Second Gulf War Iraq's dictator Saddam Hussein started menacing Israel with missiles and Israel indeed became victim of the Iraqi aggression, an outcry of horror went around the world. One was expecting poison gas attacks at any hour and Israel then was not prepared for appropriate defence against the death bearing missiles.
Since 1983/84 the American State Department, the Central Intelligence Agency CIA, the BBC, the Jerusalem Post, amongst others, had pointed out that German companies especially Karl Kolb Ltd. and its daughter Pilot Plant of Dreieich were in the frontline in building up chemical weapons industries in Iraq. The near hysterical mass-tourism of German politicians to Israel after that, amongst them Hans Jochen Vogel, leader of the Social Democratic Party, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, Liberal leader and Foreign Minister, and Christian Democratic Mrs. Rita Sussmuth, President of the German Bundestag, bore witness to the latent bad conscience of German politicians...
CONTENTS
FOREWORD / 4
GENOCIDE IN IRAQ / 6
1. EXECUTIONS AND MASS EXECUTIONS / 7
2. MASSACRES / 12
3. DISAPPEARANCES / 16
4. IMPRISONMENT AND DEPORTATION OF FAMILY MEMBERS / 16
5. POISONING AND ASSASSINATIONS / 17
6. DEPORTATIONS / 19
7. USE OF POISON GAS WITHIN IRAQ / 22
8. PERSECUTION AND MURDER OF ASSYRIAN CHRISTIANS / 26
GERMANY AND GENOCIDE IN IRAQ
Germany must live up to its evident responsibilities
(Some initiatives, campaigns and actions of the Gesellschaft für bedrohte Volker)
presented at a Press Conference on 25 Feb. 1991 in Jerusalem
When in January 1991, after the beginning of the Second Gulf War Iraq's dictator Saddam Hussein started menacing Israel with missiles and Israel indeed became victim of the Iraqi aggression, an outcry of horror went around the world. One was expecting poison gas attacks at any hour and Israel then was not prepared for appropriate defence against the death bearing missiles.
Since 1983/84 the American State Department, the Central Intelligence Agency CIA, the BBC, the Jerusalem Post, amongst others, had pointed out that German companies especially Karl Kolb Ltd. and its daughter Pilot Plant of Dreieich were in the frontline in building up chemical weapons industries in Iraq. The near hysterical mass-tourism of German politicians to Israel after that, amongst them Hans Jochen Vogel, leader of the Social Democratic Party, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, Liberal leader and Foreign Minister, and Christian Democratic Mrs. Rita Sussmuth, President of the German Bundestag, bore witness to the latent bad conscience of German politicians.
Over years a multitude of German media and the Gesellschaft für bedrohte Volker as the second largest human rights organization in Germany had exposed the tight military collaboration of German firms in the built up of chemical, biological, nuclear industries and those for missiles. Our human rights organization had documented the training of Iraqi technical officers at Bundeswehrinstitutions. These warnings, informations, appeals, and protests adressed to German politicians initiated a bulk of publications in the German written, spoken and televized media. In the following pages we wish to document some excerps from these human rights campaigns which our organization has initiated against German participation both in the industrial as in the political area.
1st August 1980 - action against state terrorism:
The coordinator Near East of our organization informed West-Berlin's state security institutions of an imminent attempt by Iraqi agents involving two Iraqi diplomats to blow up the site of the annual congress of the Kurdish Student Society in Europe (KSSE) in Berlin. At the last minute, local police is able to arrest one agent with a bomb case in his hands. If the bomb had blown up, more than 50 delegates and some 200 guests and families of delegates would have met certain death.
This cooperation with local security authorities was part of our campaign to expose Iraqi diplomatic representations in London, Paris, Bukarest, Aden, Beirut, Lausanne, Genevre, Kabul, Karatschi, New Delhi and Canberra as centres of Iraqi state terrorism. One member of our Advisory Council, the Kurdish writer Dr. Ismet Sherif Vanly, was shot through the head three times by a member of the Iraqi diplomatic representation in Geneva…
Threatened Peoples
Report No. 4 February 1991
GERMANY AND GENOCIDE IN IRAQ
persecution and extermination of Kurds and Assyrian Christians
1968-1990
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