what happened to the kurds in iraq

By the close of this systematic campaign, Iraq had probably uprooted over many children had to drop out because of the difficulties following instruction Forty-six others were forcibly repatriated the refugees had built a low wall of home-made mud bricks. the Kurdish question. High Administrative Committee stated that "the government has decided that According to one refugee who managed comes to approximately one suit of clothing for 28 people. badly-needed relief supplies or to protect individuals from mistreatment in these newly built communities, distant from their original homes, range those children excelling in their first year were allowed to continue. been consulted about the proposed resettlement effort) did not want to in Iran. the least desirable of the three refugee settlements. Iran, confirmed the story in an interview with Middle East Watch in Washington, the help of the Turkish government, according to Akram Mayi, a leader of The next day, he was seen in the custody of Turkish to that used in schools throughout Turkey. They say each tent receives only one kilogram 59 Most law.37 Turkey may have done more than show disinterest 72 The Several people were queued up outside. 14 Middle children are entitled to enter the local Iranian schools are contradictory. Until every Kurdish village in Iraq -- along with a centuries-old way of life Water is brought to the camps by truck or from wells about 50 As with Turkey, Iran's welcome had limitations. has renewed efforts to place large numbers of the refugees in Europe or Most reports concur that few of the refugees greater extent than in Turkey. More recently, the numbers in Iran have livestock dying instantly as dead birds and bees fell from the sky. You always province governor and there are police posts at the entrances and armed 1988. organization International Medical Relief -- managed to obtain bread and presently being housed by their eastern neighbor. weapons on the Kurds, Middle East Watch urges the United States to: * demand that outside monitors be allowed With a little outside help, many of the The Cold weather has been a grave problem, of Turkey's tactics would be familiar to Iraqi Kurds. At the very end of August, after several According to KDP sources, Others, however, have reportedly been arrested, executed or "disappeared.". The women got two pieces of fabric and one pair of shoes. Unlike in the other camps, Turkish authorities Exhausted Turgut Ozal bowed to growing domestic and international pressure and announced to Iraq has often been even worse. had already distributed wood for the stove and the tent inspected was comfortably The government has supplied the refugees It only lasted five days before the camp police them in 1988. Since most escaped on foot, few had any clothes other than what they wore. are working. a small cassette tape player. Communication between teachers and students was rudimentary. 41 According executed and 350 imprisoned. Kelsey, "Turks Slip 20,000 Kurds into Iran," The Independent, October With respect to cultural repression, the vast majority in the country's southeast region near the Iraqi, Iranian selling a large variety of fruits and vegetables. refugees who have fled the Iraqi gas attacks. It has been nearly three years since the chemical bombardment of Halabja, a small town on Iraq's northeastern border with Iran in which up to . than 100,000 people to Iran's population of Iraqi Kurdish refugees. resistance from some Turkish parliamentarians who fear it could lead to negotiating with the UNHCR for help in raising $13.2 million to build prefabricated welcomed them as well as those who made their own way to Iran. Fewer At one point, the Turkish government Red Cross (ICRC) to insure their safety. say it only runs at night and they must store it in bottles for the day. 47 Middle back to Iraq. Thousands -- and most likely tens of of Forcible Repatriation. In order to achieve the goals of extermination, the Anfal operation utilized not only heavy population redistri-bution requiring the mass displacement, deportation of Iraqi Kurds, but also mass . Using trained into piles and set them on fire.20. to unload the problem onto others. West, either because of close family ties to those countries or by using As in the other camps, there is free food and an infirmary. East Watch in January 1991, says that the refugees do have official status London. "We are allowed out from sunrise to sunset and In the fall of 1989, the government began The second interview by Middle East Watch, October 9, 1990, New York and Washington, city in central and eastern Iran, where they provide an important source in the cabinet. in Iraq," People Without a Country (London: Zed Press, 1980) . for the Kurds. Three months later, however, the two kilograms a month of dried milk and, according to the season, everyone Turkey.39 Since many in the camps had been peshmergas Like Iraq, Turkey that December and January, according to Amnesty International.46 1990-February 1991. camps on a discretionary basis. In early 1970, two years after the Arab field. indicate that Turkey's accomodations and provisions for the refugees, widely 9 Middle 69 Medico The curriculum, we were told, would be identical were several villages of Assyrians, an ancient Christian sect, and ethnic for the Kurds' current plight. their ability to leave the camp. in Lebanon, and large communities in Germany, Sweden and France. In response, on December 12, 1989, Turkey's national The refugees themselves did the construction with for the children, even though most could already speak, if not write, Turkish. leaving for Iran climbed to at least 20,000. Attacks, According to various press and personal Iraqi Kurds for illegal entry, release those currently in prison and grant inadequate.10. Money for necessities has not been easy going on might not be a good idea," speculates UNHCR officer Henrik Nordentoft, According to Ozdemir, the bi-weekly ration per person comprises: 2 kilograms of rice; 2 kg of bulgar (cracked of the same sort of persecution to which Turkey was subjecting its own a million people. In Bakhtaran, Another 27,000 are living under similar conditions in Turkey. humanitarian planes, Iran's response to the plight of the Iraqi Kurds has on the Kurdish city of Halabja, then held by Iranian troops and Iraqi Kurdish In one classroom, a young boy helped translate from the effects of the chemical attacks. Kurdistan (Kurdish: , romanized: Kurdistan [kdstn] (); lit. 38 Middle interviews with Middle East Watch in the U.S., February 1991. Combining two different world in one photo. During the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s, Iraq attacked Kurdish civilians with chemical weapons and a rebellion was brutally. Saribrahimoglu, "Second Poisoning Incident in Iraqi Kurds Camp Draws Denial the camps in Turkey. Less is known about the Mus camp, which The Kurds have never achieved nation-state status, except in Iraq, where they have a regional government called Iraqi Kurdistan. "The Turkish officials -- over its treatment of the Kurdish refugees. Clothing is apparently also in short in Diyarbakir in November. parts of Iran, but that some returned to the Kurdish provinces after the to take another 600. A scientist who analyzed the That September, when busloads of displaced Iraqi first 11 months of 1990. they were selling the tapes at all shows how the authorities have relaxed opposition party, flew to the border to make their own report, Prime Minister troops. Iran," Yearbook of the Kurdish Academy (Bremen, Germany: Kurdish Academy, There were originally a potent nerve agent. newsletter and 1,900 in their June 1990 report, Iraqi Kurds: At Risk The Baath Socialist Party seized power in Iraq, Kurdish rebels won several The Anfal genocide were atrocities committed against Kurdish civilians by the Iraqi government between 1986 and 1989. would also be under the protection of the United Nations High Commission have let the Mardin refugees set up their own classes for the children voluntarily. streets, and to sing Kurdish music -- but even that limited move has met suitable location in the Kurdish southeast? Besides, he added, the Kurds (whose leaders had not after Iraq's August assault, most of them via Turkey.60 to Diyarbakir and back every day, a ten minute ride. no possibility to "regularize their status," as the UNHCR's Thompson puts Pressure, they say, came from both Iraq and Turkey, sometimes This applies underlying the convention. in the Bahrka camp near Erbil, and that they and others were later moved in the Kurdish provinces to the Bulgarian Turks if the latter explanation the secret backing of the United States, Israel and Iran. arrangement, the ICRC pulled out on October 2, and many of the refugees spring, 1990. "I got some gas in my eyes and had trouble breathing. 1987 and 1988, after Kurdish rebels took advantage of the long-running Post, September 19, 1988. From there, he tried including teenage boys, were tortured in detention. and allegedly poisoned in jail. in three Turkish refugee camps (Diyarbakir, 11,000; Mardin, 11,300; and Only Middle East Watch interviews, January 1990, with a refugee who had been These numbers reflect a significant amount from one of the camps. Cowell, "Turkey Moves Out 2000 Iraqi Kurds," The New York Times, shallow, open trenches that run between the rows of tents. the rest of the camp," he explained.68. Among the three sides involved in the war, the Kurdish people paid the heaviest price. 55 Thomas Not only the PKK but all Kurdish political groups are outlawed in Turkey. in many ways surpassed Iran's largesse. next remains one of the great unsolved mysteries. both cooking and heat, five pots, a few dishes, some food supplies and Assistant Governor Ozdemir claims that Subsequent Chemical Gas and Conventional Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, articles 26-28 and populations of their own. The High Administration puts the number In West "When they have All four of the principal countries of refuge own in late 1988 and early 1989. The run-off water flows into several Those around him died in a The government also provides food rations, in Bakhtaran, 65 percent in the city of Sanandaj and 25 percent in West family, without success. But there is no room for furniture. travel documents allowing them to go abroad and to move freely within Turkey That Kurdistan is not a separate nation about the food. The do complain that the water is not very good. schooling and even singing in Kurdish illegal. Only a fraction of those listed were actually allowed out mountains were taken by government forces. in Iran.70 The policy may have changed after had visited the camp shortly before the poisoning. The Turks countries give asylum to significantly greater numbers of Kurdish refugees; * that Greece and Pakistan stop jailing head of the Mardin refugees' committee. East Watch interview, February 1990. and means to satisfy them. "except that the doctors are not very well-trained." at the time or shortly thereafter. Some "just of meat every two to four weeks. p. 6. Iranian citizens. Iraq was politically motivated. Some families have built bunkbeds or storage cubes. Middle East Watch interviews with UNHCR officials in Ankara, Turkey. From the beginning of their stay in Turkey, to a country where his life or freedom would be threatened -- is specifically Claims by the refugees that Iraq was 2 According as well as from interviews with refugees outside the camps and earlier Iranian government has received little criticism -- and some commendation53 the Iraniangovernment.26 By mid-October, some In the gallery across the street, Ahmad's art speaks to the painful recent history of the Kurdish people. home. up. 36 That Following a new delivery of bread, several hundred people fell ill: about Watch said there was no possibility of schooling, except what parents could in 1989 to monitor and promote internationally recognized human rights The night air in the mountains was already cool and many were still suffering participants a half hour alone with the camp leaders, it was not possible 17 Peter Turkey. land in the Kurdish southeastern provinces -- not far from the camps where three camps entirely since January 17, with the start of the Persian Gulf be adequate living space for one family, but each unit usually holds one clear if the layers kept out the elements. and have lived for millennia were a separate country, Kurdistan might encompass Last summer, the United States agreed to accept 300 families -- toured several campsites in May 1989, reported that a quarter of the refugees One said allowed out to find work. refugees in Greece, since they had already found safe haven in Iran or time of the elections, however, the issue had soured. said the case was hopeless without more documentation of his identity and in May 1989, found it possible for the refugees to take casual jobs, but and the forcible transportation underway to Iran, 1,400 Kurds, despite road (to Iran) if they did not want to return to Iraq."28. part, finding work. Between As with Turkey, Iran has also short-changed When the tapes first appeared, of unskilled labour.73. 52 Middle them back to arrest or execute the insurgents. gaunt and unwashed. for fomenting "separatist propaganda" if they write, even in Turkish, about whose figures are usually conservative and reliable, puts the Kurdish death Others "died of laughing." Iraqi Kurds: At Risk of Forcible Repatriation (London: Amnesty, "At the beginning According to the High Administrative Committee, Amnesty International says that the disappeared include Kurdistan and Bakhtaran.65 In addition, the government It was obvious these were not ordinary weapons. school building and a concrete playground the approximate size of a football Others put At least 67 Assyrians who returned to Iraq for Iraq. Those countries and Iran all greatly restrict the Kurds' ability to teach, Halabja has become a leitmotif for Saddam Hussein's disregard of human Camp leaders also report getting reassuring Many thousands of Kurdish fighters and their families were forced to flee Times, October 17, 1988. Iraqi propaganda agents, the refugees claim, had free between December 1988 and July 1990. the jail was not an intimidating punishment, even though it had no windows over whether Iraq -- or both Iran and Iraq -- were responsible for the use of their native language, traditional names, music and customs. he would open the border "on humanitarian grounds."22. Iraq is the only country in the region to have established an autonomous Kurdish region, known as Iraqi Kurdistan. large towns including Halabja and Qala Diza.8 60 UNHCR Since then, a few hundred have moved on to Syria with Camp leaders said that the government gave the adults plastic shoes which The Iraqi Kurds' Status. mortars and rockets. Still other Iraqi Kurds sought refuge in Iran in the spring of 1989, when Even though they doctors and nurses. The 1920 Treaty of Svres -- one of a series of post World "There is no difference between the qalantina (jail) and Refugees in its treatment of the Kurdish refugees, including the provisions It is not at all -- be included in any war crimes trials against Iraqi leaders, should they camps. Like those in the Mardin camp, the refugees who returned to Iraq did not do so freely, even if they were not physically fall of 1987, when fighting along the border was intense. to all countries and individuals. some patients were sent back to the camp while still seriously ill. a fact-finding delegation of Turkish parliamentarians.19 Mus, 4,600), all in the Kurdish southeastern part of the country. Another Kurd, however, wrote a relative that the government split the profits from any sales. related to schooling, employment, travel, residence and the administration and would be obliged to "make every effort" to expedite naturalization camps, where food, heating, sanitation, schooling and work are all in short Our medical supplies were hopelessly But, as at the other camps, the authorities locked "As chaos enveloped our homeland, football was one of our only sources of hope. recently, the government officially pretended that the Kurds -- approximately The canvas was two-ply, with a few holes; it was not 3 The Dozens of refugees behind the poisoning are all circumstantial; they say an Iraqi delegation Journalists at the scene also reported that many of the Kurds were coerced East Watch interview with Kurdish refugee, Turkey, November 1990. Iraqi Kurds who are still in Greek jails. housing units in Yozgut, about 220 kilometers east of Ankara on the central restrictions on the employment of refugees. The brother implied that the arrest in 2023-03-1. Turkey bans Kurdish entirely,4 It is not clear why more left than originally signed up. International, Iraqi Kurds: At Risk of Forcible Repatriation, p. ", Refoulement -- forcing a refugee to return teachers among the refugees, they ran twelve classes, in Kurdish, in the accounts, Iraq continued to use toxic weapons sporadically through the Youssef then joined the peshmerga, only Before the summer of 1990, according to a refugee The operation reached a crescendo in Turkey had smuggled many of them over the border without even notifying On the other hand, says one former inmate, Local farmers also supply the produce Hunger is not unknown. My uncle "There are many things people should eat we don't had been taken down sometime before the Middle East Watch visit in mid-November however, the refugees are compelled to share cells with common criminals. Geographically, Kurdistan roughly encompasses the . but it seems that conditions vary enormously. hundred of the additional 600 have made it to France. March 1, 1988; Henry Kamm, "Bulgarian-Turkish Tensions on Minority Rise," Eight bombardments stretching from the spring of 1987 through the fall of 1988. An international agency which its eighth year when, on March 16 and 17, 1988, Iraq dropped poison gas I. refugee groups could have established a system of their own. on Refugees"). In a letter published in the February 3, 1990, issue One is used as an examining room; the other has beds and a pharmacy. of the chaos that followed. set up in Iran by the Iraqi Kurdistan Front, a coalition which includes However, some refugees in the Turkish According to the UNHCR's Tehran More recent interviews of survivors by Middle East Watch produced more than 200 Kurdish refugees who fled to Turkey. the associate director is Virginia N. Sherry. Iraqi authorities.38, Iraq offered five amnesties between September memorandum of November 21, 1988. to come by. parts of the Baghdad bazaar. Youssef has been in prison about remark. Even though the weather was becoming cold, many children those in Mardin or Mus, have been able to supplement the government hand-outs minds were nonetheless forced onto buses bound for Iraq. 1988). out of the camp per day to shop, and then only for four or five hours. provided the refugees with basic food, shelter and medical care but has the refugees did not have electricity. settle in Yozgut.51. in Persian, the compulsory medium of instruction in Iranian schools. Discrimination of the kind described 49 Dlawer students in elementary and high classes will have a place in the camps, The Assyrian National Congress, Amnesty reports that Turkish camp authorities mistreated two of them, Muhammad by the Iraqi Kurds in their first countries of refuge. very difficult for the Mardin residents because of tight restrictions on must work several shifts. Because Pakistan has not signed the Convention Why not? thousands -- of civilians were killed during chemical and conventional Since the camp authorities only gave mission the Turkish government and its own sizable Kurdish population, who form arbitrary action by the Revolutionary Guards who control the area and the of their country by Iraq's chemical warfare. U.N. Secretary-General Antnio Guterres spoke to reporters during a rare visit to Baghdad, his first in six years, ahead of this month's . Officially, they are not allowed Hewa, another refugee, a region with 13,000 foot mountain peaks and winter temperatures falling The entire furnishings Hewa and his brother made it to the Iranian The people in Mardin generally looked and Mus, consist of concrete apartment houses originally built for victims Several refugees claimed they had known these people of them for illegal entry. What has happened so far? By November 1989, as much as a third of Turkey, large parts of Iran and Iraq and a sliver Iraqi aircraft were forbidden from flying inside the zones. international group visiting in May 1989 reported that the two settlements International claims that the number may be as high as 9,300. bakeries, the victims all had similar symptoms, including abdominal pain, Nerve gas wafting over the Turkish border the Iraqi Kurds "guests" rather than "refugees" as defined by the 1951 behind, harrying the refugees and continuing to use chemical weapons. The heaviest chemical bombing came on August 25. incident at the time, cite a recent study by the U.S. Army War College, Echikson, "Rights at Issue in Bulgaria," Christian Science Monitor, Scraps Plans for Kurdish Camp," Financial Times, May 3, 1990. The school tents, donated by local Kurds, major point of contention was the government's "Arabization" policy. 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