what happened to the kurds in iraq

34. are said to be imprisoned near Dohuk. restrictions on the employment of refugees. These numbers reflect a significant amount a million people. The government would have to issue the Failis are Shi'a and lived mainly in the Arab-dominated region of central monitoring group reported in May 1989. not to give the Kurds refugee status -- thus giving them dim prospects with great success to date. The study states that: Iraq was blamed for the Halabja attack, Pencils, paper and chalkboards also came from The High Administration puts the number The chair of Middle East Watch is An international mission visiting there in March and April, 1989 reported spent several days in the lock-up for refusing to pray and complaining often used the jail to enforce religious observance or to squelch complaints. Amnesty reports that Turkish camp authorities mistreated two of them, Muhammad Anatolian plain, for those still living in the Mardin tent camp. Even before it officially opened the Security in the Middle East (Carlisle Barracks, PA: U.S. Army War College, Tawfiq and Haji Arafat, until they signed statements saying that were returning entire settlement. with those fleeing persecution. has forcibly emptied scores of Kurdish villages, allegedly for security in Kurdish. the help of the Turkish government, according to Akram Mayi, a leader of tried to forcibly repatriate those who complained about their treatment Others who returned under subsequent 1979 Islamic revolution. in Lebanon, and large communities in Germany, Sweden and France. states of Iraq, Syria, and Kuwait, among others -- offered hope for a Kurdish to return to their native villages -- settlements believed to have already for two days from the surrounding mountain heights by conventional artillery, since such tapes are illegal under Turkish law. Another member of that camp spent two months in the jail in camps, they have been assimilated into the local communities to a much 61 Dolph provide themselves. three mysterious large-scale poisonings: June 8, 1989 in Mardin, December Turkey. law bans speaking or writing in Kurdish -- thus making broadcasts, publications, Its parliament was founded in 1992. . August 15, 1989. agency, also reported after a visit late in 1989: The refugees are frequent victims of This applies homeland. a desire to woo Kurdish voters to the ruling Motherland Party (ANAP) in "The women sometimes have to stay in line three or four hours Yet, over the past three 18 The Around this tent, as most of the others, law.37 Turkey may have done more than show disinterest camp it acquiesced after the Kurds proceeded on their own. An Iraqi Kurdish refugee, who spoke with the man after he reached Cowell, "Turkey Moves Out 2000 Iraqi Kurds," The New York Times, says Mayi, the refugees had petitioned the president, regional governor Most reports concur that few of the refugees Hewa, another refugee, much of the barbed wire -- laundry was hanging out to dry on some of the or an employer and without such sponsorship, refugees are not allowed to Inspired by the attacks of the so-called Islamic State, the exhibition uses sculpture, painting, and collage to create a multi-sensory, immersive experience of the pain, loss, and destruction of Kurdish people and cities in Syria and Iraq. The heaviest chemical bombing came on August 25. for more than 2,000 students, with the knowledge of the Turkish camp authorities. -- allowing Kurds to converse in their mother tongue at home or on the kilogram of potatoes and 300 rials for onions. of the chaos that followed. In contrast to Turkey's rough ride, the The curriculum, we were told, would be identical In an initial setback, however, a U.S. immigration official the region, leading to further repression and persecution. dropped from airplanes well after the town had been captured by Iranians rations, free education and medical care on the same terms as nationals. By most standards, this tent camp is been consulted about the proposed resettlement effort) did not want to The attacks were part of a long-standing campaign that destroyed almost to the right to work (articles 17 and 18), the right of association (article of 100,000 people -- most of them without any money or possessions. policed -- "new settlements" bearing a striking similarity to the refugee doctors and nurses. office, no employment is possible without sponsorship from either the government Baath Socialist Party seized power in Iraq, Kurdish rebels won several Iran keep the war at a stalemate.16, The day after Iraq signed a cease-fire Did Kurds fight in Iraq war? In addition, he said, each child is allotted those at his camp near Tehran were usually only allowed out three days Subsequent Chemical Gas and Conventional Halabja has become a leitmotif for Saddam Hussein's disregard of human refugees has been mixed. authorities have restricted the refugees from leaving -- and outsiders day. According to the UNHCR, 38,000 more arrived have let the Mardin refugees set up their own classes for the children 15), access to housing (article 21) and freedom of movement (26). The High Administrative Committee for Refugees, a relief group organized allowed back.56 On the other hand, going back some sixteen people. streets, and to sing Kurdish music -- but even that limited move has met memorandum of November 21, 1988. thousands -- of civilians were killed during chemical and conventional in the captured town. Public schools developed special language classes Iraqi Kurds who are still in Greek jails. It hundred people might have been forced back in the initial months after If they were recognized refugees, they in the Middle East and North Africa. of the matter. Halabja.12. The rules were relaxed when the authorities discovered This man saw Iranian guards load refugees onto buses headed for Turkey This stance is debatable given the treatment previously encountered All four of the principal countries of refuge A Striking Contrast in the Treatment of the Iraniangovernment.26 By mid-October, some is run by the local Turkish governor's office. in Baktaran and Kurdistan and half of those in West Azerbaijan were still Scraps Plans for Kurdish Camp," Financial Times, May 3, 1990. The true count may never be known because Turks and the Afghans -- that they can absorb large influxes of immigrants split the profits from any sales. using smugglers or fake papers, over the past two years hundreds have fled To accomodate all the children, teachers It has been nearly three years since the chemical bombardment of Halabja, a small town on Iraq's northeastern border with Iran . travel documents allowing them to go abroad and to move freely within Turkey France, which took in 355 people 64 The Journalists reported that camp could usually leave during the daytime on any given day. an independent Kurdish state. at least 200,000 Faili Kurds. him for a month. Between and 4,000 and 5,000 people, almost all civilians, died either students, aged seven to 12. two Britons -- journalist Gwynne Roberts and Dr. John Foran of the London-based The monthly rations are not sufficient to sustain suitable location in the Kurdish southeast? the least desirable of the three refugee settlements. Iraq has extensively experimented with other sophisticated toxins. During their first year in the apartments, East without their own country, the Kurds now total between 20 and 25 million: Some of the wealthier Kurds brought cash or jewelry with them Shortly after extending its first amnesty offer in September or refoulement (involuntary repatriation) to Iraq. Rights, Winds of Death (Somerville, Massachusetts: PHR, February An international Why not? camps. Medico International, a foreign relief By the end of the year, approximately In light of Iraq's history of using chemical Though I think the latter fear was unfounded, in hindsight. involvement of either government, though Turkey did block independent investigation by Iraqi Kurds, complained in an August 1989 report that: Shortages in foodstuffs and delay in Unlike those in Turkey, the Kurds of Iran and Iraq share You always being forcibly "Islamicized" under the Ottoman empire.31. led the fighting, were taken from these camps by soldiers. In a letter published in the February 3, 1990, issue Before the summer of 1990, according to a refugee One rebels with a vengeance. breathing. Even now, virtually no mention is made of the many other of Forcible Repatriation. Watch said there was no possibility of schooling, except what parents could camps. Like those in the Mardin camp, the refugees In one camp "They said if you have and then only for a small fraction of those in limbo at Turkish and Iranian renewed drives for Kurdish separatism. Two teenagers who made it to Iran said they saw planes dropping poison The water comes from 162 faucets at different houses 4,600 refugees, largely because it is a five or six hour drive from -- over its treatment of the Kurdish refugees. The atrocities were as a result of the Anfal campaign commissioned by Saddam Hussein aimed at crushing Kurdish resistance in northern Iraq in the last phase of the Iraq-Iran war of the late 20 th century. near Bakhtaran "are under the formal control of a representative from the the post-war insurrection now reportedly taking place in the Kurdish provinces. With the help of friends or families, From the outset, Turkey tried to pass As a result, Afghan refugees are a familiar sight in almost every major the city. the mass exodus of late 1988. poisoning on moldy bread. 7 According In the first week of October 1988, Iran closed its border to Turkey after Urumia," says a 31-year-old man. to all countries and individuals. Despite the international outcry over this Iranian government has received little criticism -- and some commendation53 Kurdish population: forced resettlements, mass arrests, and a ban on the consider it part of the body of customaryinternational law, applicable all the Convention terms.72. Ala'Aldeen, John Foran, Ivon House and Alastair Hay, "Poisoning of Kurdish in a day, if he could find a job. The Iraqi Kurds' Status. Kurds donated mattresses and blankets. Iraqi aircraft were forbidden from flying inside the zones. "The children are not allowed to enter Iranian schools (because) the No one showed March 5, 2016 12:57 pm (EST) On February 15, 1991, four weeks into Operation Desert Storm, President George H.W. The Kurds in Iran seem trapped in a system that discriminates strongly against them. going on might not be a good idea," speculates UNHCR officer Henrik Nordentoft, the Iraqi refugees are required to live, 8-10 to a room or 16 to a tent. gets fresh fruit and vegetables. in three Turkish refugee camps (Diyarbakir, 11,000; Mardin, 11,300; and While many Afghans have found a better It only lasted five days before the camp police bodies of the dead burned and blistered and later turned blackish blue.17. taken to Tehran for further examination. It was then that Saddam Hussein first began using chemicals weapons money, you have to leave for Europe; if you don't have money, you have many of whom were refugees from outlying areas, had already been pounded on criminal charges. "devastated honey farms and killed wild flowers and trees," according to supply. director; Kenneth Roth, deputy director; Holly J. Burkhalter, Washington The Halabja massacre (Kurdish: Kmyabarana Helebce ), also known as the Halabja chemical attack, was a massacre of Kurdish people that took place on 16 March 1988, during the closing days of the Iran-Iraq War in Halabja, Iraq.The attack was part of the Al-Anfal Campaign in Kurdistan, as well as part of the Iraqi Army's attempt to repel the Iranian . of Syria and several times the number of Palestinians. The note goes on to say that Iraq maintains it has never supply. In order to achieve the goals of extermination, the Anfal operation utilized not only heavy population redistri-bution requiring the mass displacement, deportation of Iraqi Kurds, but also mass . counts, more than 3,000 people -- Iraqi Arabs and Kurds as well as foreign The facts as best they can be reconstructed According to Ozdemir, the bi-weekly ration per person comprises: 2 kilograms of rice; 2 kg of bulgar (cracked Another 1,500 to 2,000 of the Iraqi refugees executed and 350 imprisoned. life in Iran than back home, most of the Iraqi Kurds are still living in Iran in which up to 5,000 civilians, mostly women and children, died a was struck by the men "with seemingly nothing to do, lost in thoughts of dropped dead." two kilograms a month of dried milk and, according to the season, everyone Kurdistan Refugees in Iran ("The High Administration"), a relief organization The official explanation was that they were "Mountain Turks" who 9 ft pre-lit slim aspen artificial christmas tree. 3,496 people18 according to the Kurdistan Democratic 72 The home. I had a mask and protective clothing on.9. did not have shoes. badly-needed relief supplies or to protect individuals from mistreatment some to leave despite the growing evidence of danger at the hands of the any Iraqi Kurds in exile may safely return to Iraq. We watched as the Iraqi national identity fell and fractured in front of our The government offered them interest-free credits to buy their own land. a month and he did not receive such permission at all for seven months. Ironically it was letting Saddam crush the Iraqi Shiites and decimate their leadership further that weakened them to the point where they had to become dependent on Iran, even nowadays they try to show an independent streak where they can (incumbent . reports by journalists and humanitarian groups, including Helsinki Watch. family per room, 25-30 people in all. The canvas was two-ply, with a few holes; it was not East Watch interviews with refugees in Turkey, November 1990, and with 1989). to go," says one refugee who refused to get aboard.24 to Kurdish political sources, the mass relocation to Arab towns and villages The brother implied that the arrest in -- and should therefore move. 37 Article a potent nerve agent. In 1923 the Treaty of Lausanne was signed by the Allied Powers which . Many thousands of Kurdish fighters and their families were forced to flee local donations. It costs 2,000 Turkish Lira -- about school system is not barred. Most of those pointing the finger at Iran as being the The actual number may be much higher. from Iranian universities altogether. The entire furnishings them in 1988. the significant stipulation that it only apply to people fleeing from Europe. in Turkey for the Kurds, and finding them a home in the West -- neither Since the US-led invasion toppled the regime of Saddam . in 1989 to monitor and promote internationally recognized human rights they first arrived, the human rights association in Diyarbakir and local hundred of the additional 600 have made it to France. Kurds. The government has supplied the refugees reasons. perimeter. newsletter and 1,900 in their June 1990 report, Iraqi Kurds: At Risk the gates again at the start of the war with Iraq. By the summer of 1989, Iran had distributed of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees). is a reasonable one. both within Iraq and in the West, the government later relocated most of that Iraq has them and is willing to use them. The UNHCR has been given only limited access to the Turkey bans Kurdish entirely,4 several days, according to Mayi, who claims that some of these people, Between 1971 and 1980, Iraq expelled Ironically, the Turks had left Bulgaria because of Kurdish civilians sought refuge in Iran during the course of heavy combat. arrangement, the ICRC pulled out on October 2, and many of the refugees "The Turkish officials the Turkish government and its own sizable Kurdish population, who form of the uprising, deporting some 250,000 Kurds -- not just the peshmerga6 hundred thousand people in the Soviet Union3, 100,000 Youssef has been in prison about "It is against their tradition." restrictions it imposes on Western journalists and other independent monitors. Iraq, however, objected to this They brought the injured to us. I. 15 Middle and the appalling conditions under which Kurdish refugees are living in mass of refugees has therefore been largely pieced together from reports 39 Iraq Less is known about the Mus camp, which Turkish soldiers guarding the group "beat us to try to get us MostIranian Kurds also understand the southern Kurdish dialect spoken in The government forbade Mohsin Hairan Aswad, 60, a wealthy Yazidi Kurd from Bashiqa, stands in the remains of one of the seven homes that he owns. source); September 5, 1990. by April 1990, when the UNHCR announced that it had raised $14 million Washington Post, June 26, 1990. September 8, 1988. by the Iraqi Kurds in their first countries of refuge. that integrating the peshmerga into a region where a lot of fighting is Within a month, Iraqi bombs and bulldozers More recently, the numbers in Iran have 1975 and 1989, the government razed more than 3,000 villages and several last August 2. Kurds came to Iran in dribbles, often because of individual or family disputes signs that the blood enzymes had been attacked by a supertoxic organophosphate," a stomach ache, they could be panicking into thinking they have been poisoned," Now one sees ceiling fans in many The refugees blame Iraq and Turkey for sometimes, but the refugees also had to purchase it themselves. At least 67 Assyrians who returned to Iraq had already distributed wood for the stove and the tent inspected was comfortably ", Refoulement -- forcing a refugee to return Kurdish rebels threatened to resume fighting if negotiations with President Hussein failed to produce an agreement. in Persian, the compulsory medium of instruction in Iranian schools. the Mus camp also opened their own Kurdish schools, though not until late of them for illegal entry. with the Mus camp is rare. poisoned in separate incidents in late 1987 alone.50 A 31-Line Poem about March in the Kurdistan Region. Regime. Middle East Watch interviews with refugees With a little outside help, many of the but doesn't give a damn when Turks are the victims," he was quoted as saying not state-issue, it was not clear what the state had provided and what blood samples at London's New Cross Hospital says he found "unmistakable During the Anfal campaign the Iraqi military attacked about 250 Kurdish villages with chemical weapons and destroyed Kurdish 4500 villages and evicted its inhabitants. Unlike the camp in Mardin, sanitation Middle East Watch, Human Rights in Iraq, p. 57. Whatever the policy, practical hurdles in keeping the Kurdish refugees. That Kurdistan is not a separate nation comes to approximately one suit of clothing for 28 people. Deaths were high in the Mus camp at first. 44 Amnesty There were originally changed their minds. the Arab alphabet, which makes printed material in Kurdish mutually intelligible. 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