The Deputy Speaker of the Council of Representatives on the anniversary of the Anfal crimes in Bahdinan regions condoles the people of Kurdistan and calls on the federal government to do justice to the families of the martyrs and victims *…

The Deputy Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament, Dr. Shakhwan Abdullah Ahmed, recalled today Thursday 25/8/2022 with great pain the crimes of the former regime in completing the notorious Anfal operations against the people of Kurdistan in the Bahdinan areas of villages and cities belonging to the governorates of Dohuk and Erbil in 1988, which took thousands of lives of Kurds, carried out killing campaigns for youth, women and children, deportation and destruction of homes and mosques, and the use of internationally prohibited weapons.
Abdullah denounced these heinous crimes against humanity, and called on the federal government to fulfill its legal and moral obligations toward the families of the martyrs and victims, Providing them with financial and moral equity and securing a decent life for them*.
A salute to the souls of the martyrs of the Anfal operations and all the martyrs of Iraq…

Media Office
of the Deputy Speaker of the Iraqi Council of Representatives
Thursday 25 August 2022