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The Anfal genocide

27/06/2019 GMT

BBC World Service - Witness History, The Anfal genocide

Saddam Hussein's war on the Kurds in the 1980s

In 2007, an Iraqi court ruled a 1980s campaign by Saddam Hussein against the Kurds was genocide. Tens of thousands of Kurds were killed in chemical attacks and mass executions.

In June 2007, an Iraqi court ruled that a 1980s campaign by Saddam Hussein against the Kurds was genocide. More than 100,000 Kurds were killed in chemical attacks and mass executions, and their villages destroyed, during the five-month Anfal campaign. Saddam Hussein's cousin, Ali Hassan al-Majid, who was the architect of the campaign, was executed for his part in it in 2010. 

Picture:  Ali Hassan al-Majid in court during the Anfal trial in Baghdad, November 2006 (Credit: AFP/Getty Images)

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