Iraq’s crime of genocide, the Anfal campaign against the Kurds

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Éditeur : Yale University Press	Date & Lieu : 1995, New Haven
Préface :	Pages : 376
Traduction :	ISBN : 0-300-06427-6
Langue : Anglais	Format : 160x245 mm
Code FIKP : Liv. Ang. 3430	Thème : Politique

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Iraq’s crime of genocide, the Anfal campaign against the Kurds Human rights watch Yale University Press Iraq's 1988 campaign of extermination against the Kurdish people living within its borders resulted in the death of at least 50,000 and as many as 100,000 people, many of them women and children. This book from Human Rights Watch investigates the so-called Anfal campaign and concludes that this campaign constituted genocide against the Kurds. The book is the result of research by a team of Human Rights Watch/Middle East investigators who analyzed eighteen tons of captured Iraqi government documents (ten of these documents are reproduced in an appendix) and carried out field interviews with more than 350 witnesses, most of them survivors of the Anfal campaign. It confirms that the campaign was characterized by gross violations of human rights, including mass summary executions and disappearance of many tens of thousands of noncombatants; the widespread use of chemical weapons, among them mustard gas and nerve agents that killed thousands; the arbitrary jailing and warehousing of tens of thousands of women, children, and elderly people for months, in conditions of extreme deprivation and without judicial order; the forced displacement of hundreds of thousands of villagers to barren resettlement camps after the demolition of their homes; and the wholesale destruction of some two thousand villages along with their schools, mosques, farms, and power stations. The book is a searing indictment of the Iraqi government's carefully planned and executed program to destroy a people, harrowing in its detailed and objective recounting of crimes against innocents. .....

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Human rights watch / Middle east

Iraq’s crime of genocide, the Anfal campaign against the Kurds

Yale university press

Human Rights Watch and Yale University Press express
Research into the Anfal campaign was made possible by grants from
Herbert and Marion Sandler, George and Susan Soros,
Rosalind Whitehead, and Medico International.

Human Rights Watch and Yale University Press express their appreciation to the
J. M. Kaplan Fund for making this joint publishing program possible.

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Iraq's crime of genocide was first published in different form
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Human Rights Watch / Middle East was established in 1989 to monitor
and promote the observance of internationally recognized human rights
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Iraq's crime of genocide: the Anfal campaign against the Kurds /
Human rights watch / Middle east.
p. cm. (Human Rights Watch books)
Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Kurds Iraq. 2. Iraq ethnic relations. 3. Massacres Iraq.
4. Genocide Iraq. I. Human rights watch/Middle east. II series.
DS70.8.K8I37 1995
305.89159-dc20 94-34779

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Jacket illustration: Widows observe the excavation of a gravesite
in 1992 near Koreme, Iraqi Kurdistan.

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