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SULAIMNAI—Families of Anfal victims in the Garmiyan administration of Sulaiamni province
have disrupted an official event commemorating the tragedy over lack of
services and unfulfilled promises.
The
Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) organized its annual event on Anfal's 34th
anniversary in Chamchamal today (14 April); however, people disrupted the
official event preventing the KRG's minister of Martyr and Anfal Affairs,
Abdulla Mahmoud, from speaking.
Protestors
mobbed the minister and prevented him from leaving to complain about the lack
of essential services, increasing taxes, and unfulfilled promises from the
authorities over the years.
Protestors
also complained that the KRG has failed to bring back the remains of the Anfal
victims to their families.
One of
the protestors told NRT that KRG officials have been giving promises for
decades without fulfilling them.
The
minister had promised to return the remains of 170 Anfal victims before today's
anniversary- something that did not materialize.
Anfal
(the Spoils) is the name of a genocide campaign carried out by the former
Baa'th regime in the 1980s, during which tens of thousands of Kurds were killed
in chemical attacks and mass executions and tens of villages were destroyed.
According to The Martyrs, Genocide and Political Prisoners
Committee, Anfal comping in Garmian killed 182,000 citizens and destroyed 500
villages and four sub-districts.
Human
Rights Watch says up to 100,000 mostly civilians died in the campaign. KRG says
more than 180,000 people were killed.
(NRT Digital Media)