Anfal campaign
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The Anfal campaign, also known as the Kurdish genocide, was a counterinsurgency operation, described by many scholars and human rights groups as a genocide or ethnic cleansing, which was carried out b
Footwear of a child found in an Anfal mass grave
Monument at the mass grave of victims of the Halabja chemical attack
Rizgary, former Sumud relocation camp for Anfal survivors (photographed 2011)
Memorial to Anfal victims at the Amna Suraka museum in Sulaimaniyya
Ali Hassan al-Majid
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Colonel General Ali Hassan al-Majid al-Tikriti, was an Iraqi military officer and politician under Saddam Hussein who served as defense minister, interior minister, and chief of the General Security.
Anfal campaign
…population, mostly civilians. Although primarily targeting Kurds, other non-Arabs also fell victim to the Anfal campaign. The Iraqi forces were led by Ali Hassan al-Majid, on the orders of President Saddam Hussein. The campaign's name was taken from the title of the eighth chapter of the Qur'an (al-ʾanfāl). In 1993, Human…
Al-Majid at an investigative hearing in 2004