History Of The Kurdish Genocide

However the Kurdish genocide started decades before the Anfal and has claimed countless fatalities and victims. Anfal was part of an extensive policy that was started in the 1960s on Saddam Hussein’s ascension to power to ethnic cleansing the Kurdish inhabitance from northern part of Iraq. This process named as “Arabization” spanned the years from the early 1960s to 1991 and succeeded in substantively driving Kurdish families out of their houses in the Kurdistan region to desert areas of Iraq or some of them flew to Iran and Turkey. One of the significant factors in making of this process was the existence of strategically valuable oil fields in the Kurdistan region of Iraq and Kurdish forces known as Peshmerga their activity that was deemed