Hi Friends ANFAL This song is dedicated to the families of Anfal. R.I.P to the victims of Anfal. May Allah bless all the innocent lives of families for the long suffering. Unfortunately this is just a mixed tape not the original master quality, because I couldn't be able to get hold of a professional sound engineer, pulse I didn't have the fund to record it in studio so we just record it with a garage band. Hope you enjoy it. ANFAL YANIKKHOSHNOW LYRICS BY: ABDULLAH HAJI SHEX TOFIQ BERZINJI MUSICBY:JOSEPH&JOHN; MIXEDBY:MICHEAL 2012 The al-Anfal Campaign also known as Operation Anfal was a genocide against the Kurdish people (and many other ethnic groups) in Northern Iraq, led by the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein and headed by Ali Hassan al-Majid in the final stages of Iran-Iraq War. The campaign takes its name from Surat al-Anfal in the Qur'an, which was used as a code name by the former Iraqi Baathist regime for a series of systematic attacks against the Kurdish population of northern Iraq, conducted between 1986 and 1989 and culminating in 1988. The campaign also targeted other minority communities in Iraq including Assyrians, Shabaks, Yazidis, Jews, Mandeans, and many villages belonging to these ethnic groups were also destroyed. According to the HRW during the Anfal campaign, the Iraqi government: • Massacred 50,000 to 100,000 non-combatant civilians including women and children. • Destroyed about 4,000 villages (out of 4,655) in Iraqi Kurdistan. Between April 1987 and August 1988, 250 towns and villages were exposed to chemical weapons. • Destroyed 1,754 schools, 270 hospitals, 2,450 mosques, 27 churches. • Wiped out around 90% of Kurdish villages in targeted areas. Violation of human rights The campaigns of 1987-1989 were characterized by the following gross human rights violations. o Mass summary executions and mass disappearance of many tens of thousands of non-combatants, including large numbers of women and children, and sometimes the entire population of villages. o The widespread use of chemical weapons, including mustard gas and the nerve agent GB, or Sarin, against the town of Halabja as well as dozens of Kurdish villages, killing many thousands of people, mainly women and children. o The wholesale destruction of some 2,000 villages, which are described in government documents as having been "burned", "destroyed", "demolished" and "purified", as well as at least a dozen larger towns and administrative centers (nahyas and qadhas); Since 1975, some 4,000 Kurdish villages have been destroyed by the former Iraqi regime. o Human Rights Watch/Middle East estimates that between 50,000 and 100,000 people were killed. Some Kurdish sources put the number higher, estimating 182,000 Kurds were killed. o Army engineers destroyed the large Kurdish town of Qala Dizeh (population 70,000) and declared its environs a "prohibited area," removing the last significant population center close to the Iranian border. Genocide Article 2 of the 1949 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide defines Genocide as "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group". In December 2005 a court in The Hague ruled that the killing of thousands of Kurds in Iraq in the 1980s was indeed an act of genocide.[18] The Dutch court said that it was considered "legally and convincingly proven that the Kurdish population meets the requirement under the Genocide Conventions as an ethnic group. The court has no other conclusion than that these attacks were committed with the intent to destroy the Kurdish population of Iraq."

• published: 11 Mar 2012
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