Anfal genocide

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The Anfal genocide was a series of brutal campaigns carried out by Saddam Hussein’s regime in the late 1980s that systematically targeted and massacred Kurdish civilians in Iraq through mass killings, disappearances, and chemical attacks.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Al-Anfal genocide 1
Anfal genocide canonical 1
Kurdish genocide 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf crime against humanity
ethnic cleansing campaign
genocide
war crime
actualNature systematic campaign against Kurdish civilians
alsoKnownAs Anfal campaign
linked to: Al-Anfal campaign

al-Anfal campaign
linked to: Al-Anfal campaign
commandedBy Ali Hassan al-Majid
commanderNickname Chemical Ali
commanderRole Secretary General of the Northern Bureau of the Ba'ath Party
country Iraq
endTime 1989
estimatedNumberOfVictims approximately 50,000 to 100,000 Kurds killed
tens of thousands of Kurdish civilians killed
internationalLawCategory grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions
justificationUsedByRegime counterinsurgency against Kurdish rebels
legalClassification genocide against the Kurds
legalProceeding Iraqi High Tribunal Anfal trial
location Iraqi Kurdistan
northern Iraq
mainPhaseEndTime September 1988
mainPhaseStartTime February 1988
method chemical weapons attacks
forced disappearances
forced displacement
mass killings
summary executions
village destructions
namedAfter Al-Anfal sura of the Quran
linked to: Surah Al-Anfal
notableEvent chemical attack on Halabja
numberOfDestroyedVillages thousands of Kurdish villages destroyed
partOf Iran–Iraq War context
Iraq–Kurdish conflict
perpetrator Ba'athist Iraq
Saddam Hussein regime
linked to: Ba'athist Iraq
recognizedAsGenocideBy Iraqi High Tribunal
Kurdistan Regional Government
several national parliaments
resultedInConvictionOf Ali Hassan al-Majid
several senior Ba'athist officials
startTime 1986
target Iraqi Kurds
linked to: Kurds

Kurdish civilians
rural Kurdish population
timePeriod late 1980s
victimGroupEthnicity Kurdish
linked to: Kurdish language
victimGroupReligion predominantly Sunni Muslim Kurds
yearOfHalabjaAttack 1988

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Al-Anfal campaign alsoKnownAs Anfal genocide
Al-Anfal campaign alsoKnownAs Al-Anfal genocide
linked to: Anfal genocide
Halabja chemical attack associatedWith Kurdish genocide
linked to: Anfal genocide