The Iraq Genocide was an action of slaughter against the Kurdish individuals , because Ali Hussain was the President's cousin did not want the Kurdish to have their own rebellion or them to have land and independence for themselves. This Genocide was the presidents mistake and his cousins fault for selfish reasons against the kurds The genocide did not begin until 1986 but it had already had been carried out through the 1970s till the 1980s and it did not end until 1988.(Benson 233-250) The genocide occurred in different locations considering they were relocated many times but the main war happened in iraqi kurdistan which was a common battle ground so basically the kurds were living in the no mans land which was also a battle zone and had destroyed many homes. The victims of the Genocide was the kurdish …show more content…
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The Holocaust was one of the biggest organized massacres in human history; we even had to define such an event because it was unlike any other crime in history. Sadly, our modern era brings more genocides like the Holocaust. Genocides continue to happen today, like the Al-Anfal campaign. The Al-Anfal campaign was a genocide of the Kurdish people and, like most genocides, little or nothing was done to help. These modern day massacres create an imminent need of external interference. The U.N. can’t, and maybe won’t, stop genocide and all we can do is identify early warning signs and try to prevent them. Genocides are not something that can be resolved by themselves and we can see this in the Kurdish genocide. The Al-Anfal campaign is proof that something must be done to keep genocide from occurring.
Genocide occurs in several nations and causes millions of lives to be lost. The slaughter of innocent men, women, and children continue daily, and will happen until the world and its people grow tired of the unnecessary loss of life and work to aid those in need. Darfurians are a prime example of what can happen when ones lives are not valued because of the difference in beliefs.
The genocide’s process and method of killing was through prisons and killing fields. The urban city dweller population was evacuated to the countryside, those who were elderly, frail, disabled, basically incapable of making the journey, and those who seemed to be against the new regime were killed on the spot. When the rest of the people reached the countryside they were forced to do farm work in an effort to put society back to an agrarian society starting at year zero. Many people would also die of starvation, malnutrition, and disease or for committing supposed crimes. Prison were also used, such as the now infamous prison S-21, that was once a high school that was used for some of the most brutal and gruesome killings. It was used to interrogate people and force people into admitting to having committed crimes. It was used from mid1975 to 1979. Approximately 17,000 people were killed here. People were forced into admitting to crimes through torture techniques, such as hanging, drowning, electric shock, and other methods. The prisoners were well documented,
The Turks conquered a lot of Armenia’s ancestral lands, which became part of the Ottoman Empire. Today the Ottoman Empire is known as Turkey. The Turks let the Armenians have some freedom in the lands that they had conquered from the Armenians until 1890. There were religious rebellions, and Muslims wanted their religion to stay in power, so the Ottoman Empire leaders came up with a plan to use the Armenians as people who are against their religion. This put the whole religious rebellion blame on the Armenians. The Turks killed Armenian villagers periodically in different areas in the conquered Armenian lands, because they did not like the fact that there were Christians in their country. After the Ottoman Empire lost its national strength the Young Turks, which was a nationalistic movement took over Turkey. The Young Turks murdered the Armenians in order to create inspiration towards the Islamic nationalism. This is when the Armenian Genocide had occurred in the 20th century, which resulted in 1,500,000 murders of Armenians. These people were not just simply murdered with a gun shot, they were raped, enslaved, suffered from hunger, hung, and even had their heads cut off. Yet still some nations like The United States of America has still not declared the killings of the 1.5 million Armenians in 1915 as Genocide. To this day the Armenian race is still struggling to conquer back their ancestral lands, which
During genocides many things happen, homes and lands get rected, women get raped and many people die. A genocide that happened in 1981-1983 was in Guatemala. During the Guatemalan genocide it targeted the Mayan civilization. The first stage was classification. It is when they would put people in categories to determine them by their ethnicity, race, religion, or nationality. By the second stage symbolism was used. In this stage, a simple thing or idea represented them. Then the Guatemalan army used their power to deny the rights of the Mayan, which lead to denying the humanity of the Mayan. Organization then began. This meant that plans to start the killings began. Next, the extremist split the group through the use of propaganda. Then, armies
The Armenian Genocide was a very bad thing during a very bad time. One of the main causes of the genocide was the intolerance of a tyrannical regime. During this time it caused a lot of different problems for the armenians. During this time there were about 1.5 million Armenians living in the empire in 1915 and almost 1.2 million people died during the genocide. This event caused a lot more things to go on in the future because of how bad it really was.
In 1991, a series of uprisings in Iraq turned into multiple rebellions in Northern and Southern Iraq started the “Kurdish War”. Millions of men,women and children were killed by the war. This was a genocide because this behavior resulted in torture devices, chemical
The Al-Anfal genocide ended late in 1988, at around the same time as Iraq's war with Iran. Since then, despite some of the long lasting effects such as reproductive problems thought to be caused by the chemical attacks inflicted upon it, the Kurdistan region of Iraq, currently has a population of about 5.2 million, made up of a combination of kurdish, Assyrian, Arab, Chaldean, Armenian and Turkish people.
The Armenian genocide was a systematic eradication of the Armenian population who lived under the Ottoman government. The genocide took place before and after World War I and it was set out in two phases. The first phase was to kill all able bodied men by massacre and forced labor. The second phase was to deport women, children, and the elderly and make them walk through the Syrian Desert in which a lot of people died from lack of food, water and the climate. The total population that had died was between one and one and a half million. Despite the high death rates, Turkey still denies the Armenian genocide took place. The evidence that the genocide took place is that one and a half million of Armenians died, the Armenian genocide is
Many adults and children were killed as a result of this systematic attempt of Genocide. It was much like the holocaust. This was the Al-Anfal campaign. Some may question how a government could kill its own people? It was basically like a war against the kurds which left the kurds helpless. The war was between Iraq and Iran. It was fought by nearby countries over territorial disputes. Northern kurds tried siding with iran and thereby urging their dictator Saddam Hussein to fight the kurds just as brudely as Iran. This campaign was also towards small minority groups such as christians. Hussein was apart of the Ba’ath political party.
To better understand the atrocities of these wars, one must have knowledge of the definitions of certain terms and war crimes. The ideas of “ethnic cleansing” and “genocide” are often thrown
This paper will critically analyze the idea of culture identity genocide through the case study of Turkish state violence against Kurdish identity post 1980. This identity assimilation, or cultural assassination, is examined through the repressive political strategies and implementations brought about by the enactment of Turkish Martial Law in 1980. This Emergency Legislation gave rise to organized Turkish state security forces and repeated violations of international human rights law.
“The Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan (PKK) contains one of the largest contingents of armed women militants in the world” (Duzgun, 2015). The movement is acclaimed as a foreign terrorist organisation by Turkey, and many western countries. Since the fight against the Islamic State in Syria, and Iraq this has constructed a superior condition between the United States, and the PKK, in exchanging for delisting the PKK as a terrorist organisation (Phillips & Berkell, 2016). Although the political understanding of the movement may differ in states, the enduring of the conflict can be outlined, with the second largest NATO-army on one side, and an armed national liberation movement on the other (Dirik, 2015).
The Kurds mostly live throughout Iran, Turkey and Iraq. Also, some of them can be found living in Syria, Russia, Lebanon and Germany. Kurdish intellectuals live in exile in European countries such as France, Sweden etc. (1 pg.1). In 1975, the Kurds made up 19 percent of Turkey’s population with a total number of 7,500,000 people. They had a population of 2,500,000 people in Iraq which made 23 percent of the country’s population. In Iran, the Kurdish people made up 10 percent of Iran’s population consisting of 3,500,000. In addition, the Kurds were a part of 8.5 percent of Syria’s population with 500,000 people (1 pg. 4). Moreover, in 1991, the Kurds maintained 19 percent of Turkey’s population with an increased population of 10,800,000 people. Their numbers increased in Iraq with a population of 4,100,000 people upholding their 23 percentile. The Kurdish people increased in numbers and made up 23 percent of Iran’s population with a number of 5,500,000. Their population consisted of 1,000,000 in Syria making up 8 percent of their populace (1 pg. 4). Therefore, one can draw the conclusion that the Kurds are in large
The Iraqi government crushed the rebels, inflicting over 100,000 deaths on the Kurdish people. In 1988, the regime systematically murdered as many as 182,000 Kurds and razed at least 4,000 Kurdish villages to the ground in a what was clearly a genocide. Following the 1991 Gulf War, when Saddam Hussein was viciously persecuting Kurdish and Shi’a populations, the United States instituted a no-fly zone to protect the Kurds, but provided no further help to liberate them from the government that had slaughtered them en masse.