SULEIMANI – Between 1986 and 1989, Saddam Hussein’s Ba’athist regime carried out a large-scale massacre of Kurds; more than 180,000 Kurds were massacred, 4,500 villages were destroyed and more than a million Kurds were displaced. South Kurdistan was brutally looted during those years. Chemical weapons were used in Halabja on March 16 and thousands of Kurds were killed, but the world remained silent about the massacre. Although the Iraqi Supreme Criminal Court ruled in 2007 that Anfal was a “massacre,” many perpetrators of the massacre have not yet been brought to justice. Anfal, as a deep wound, still hurts the hearts of the Kurds.
He also spoke to our agency about the Anfal massacre of young women in South Kurdistan and drew attention to the PDK’s hostility towards the Kurdish people. “Now the reality of the PDK hurts the people more than the reality of the enemy. The reality of such a life is worse than the massacre that took place in Anfal.”
A young woman named Îman Muhamed describes the Anfal massacre as follows;
“The Anfal, the genocide, was a massacre of the Kurdish people. Unfortunately, such a brutal incident took place in the history of Kurdistan. The Kurds have a bloody history, outside of the Anfal, hundreds of massacres have written the history of Kurdistan with blood. At the same time, they have made the society forget this painful history, especially the Kurdish youth, to the point where they do not know where and with whom their history begins. go back to your history, know your people and bring them to the right line, that is, they should educate their youth, get to know their history and society well, but because of the current life and politics in South Kurdistan, it leaves young people alone Think about your present, or the future of the youth. It is important for us to educate ourselves so that we do not live in the same situation and time again. Because the occupying forces always want to destroy the Kurdish people, but also all its policies of occupation, genocide and fascism st ve run, its most egregious example is the Anfal massacre and hundreds of different massacres. “These massacres have continued to this day in the person of the freedom movement.”
Şemiyen Îhsan also draws attention to the PDK’s hostility in his speech and continues to do so;
“The Anfal came as a historic catastrophe to the Kurdish people. This Anfal massacre came to the Kurdish people by the Ba’athist regime. In different countries, when such catastrophes occur, everyone moves to find out who caused it. but in Kurdistan these massacres are being normalized at the international level.The Kurdish people have always had many unforgettable massacres in their history.There must be a ceremony for the murdered Kurds at every anniversary of these massacres. To have these people is to have a painful history of the Kurdish people, but at the moment in the Southern government it does not mean those who were massacred, or to have a painful Kurdish history to do all this just to give this history to the society lost and forgotten.The government gives the people a voice with the economy that has dominated and makes the people ignorant.But because less and less people have realized the policy of the government Walking south, for it’s now saying people wish we could live again in the era when the Ba’athist regime came to power, i.e. now the reality of the PDK hurts the people more than the reality of the enemy. “The reality of such a life is worse than the massacre in Anfal.”
“Because young people know their history well, weak patriotic standards for it.”
“Dema ku gel bi şehîd û dîroka xwe ve ne serbilind be, wê demê ev tê wê wateyê ku ev gel hatiye firotin. Ciwanên welatê me di derbarê dîroka xwe de, tenê tiştên ku di ragihandin û pirtûkan de bi çend peyvan derbas dibe, nasdikin. Ev ji bo ciwanan wê xeteriyên cidî bi xwe re bîne. Bingeha zeîftiya pîvanên welatparêziyê jî ji vê derê ye. Dema ku pîvanên welatparêziyê jî lewaz be, wê demê hestên newetî jî lewaz dibe. Ji ber ku Kurdistan ji aliyê sererd û binerd ve dewlemende, dibe sedem ku hêzên dagirkerên li Kurdistanê êrîşên xwe kêm nekin. Di dîrokê de Rêjîm Baas, ji bo kurdan tune bike, gelek polîtîkayên helandinê dane meşandin. Lê di heman demê de, gelek ciwanên fedakar li pêşiya van polîtîkayan astengî avakirin. Gelê kurd di dîroka xwe de çiqas hatibe helandin jî hertim li pêşiya dijminê xwe bi rêbazên cuda astengî dane avakirin.”
NC/Viyan Amara
