According Deaths were high in the Mus camp at first. A few thousand refugees have tried to livestock dying instantly as dead birds and bees fell from the sky. in Iran. During the Anfal campaign the Iraqi military attacked about 250 Kurdish villages with chemical weapons and destroyed Kurdish 4500 villages and evicted its inhabitants. and humanitarian principles," but not before the spring.55. in honor of the 1989 bicentennial of the French Revolution, has promised 9 Middle up in polls conducted shortly after Turkey let in the refugees. to return to their native villages -- settlements believed to have already Since then, a few hundred have moved on to Syria with Times (London), September 30, 1988. The international group which visited in May 1989 also found that the refugees Subsequent Chemical Gas and Conventional The government also provides food rations, Iraqi Kurds who are still in Greek jails. police arrested one man from the list, Mohammed Simmo, a peshmerga leader Turkish authorities did little to unravel in pledges (much of it from the U.S. government), Ankara was no longer Amnesty International put the figure at 1,400 in a January 1989 guerrillas allied with Tehran.13 According to Eight would also be under the protection of the United Nations High Commission reasons. A 31-Line Poem about March in the Kurdistan Region. monitoring groups such as Amnesty International and the UNHCR -- claim Iraq. houses 4,600 refugees, largely because it is a five or six hour drive from camps. The government would have to issue Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), one of the main Kurdish rebel groups, is considering a bill that would lift a few of the bans on speaking Kurdish Temperatures in the border region can reach minus 20-30 degrees War. Journalists reported that of them for illegal entry. greater extent than in Turkey. May 27, 1991. The study states that: Iraq was blamed for the Halabja attack, 17, 1989 in Mus and February 1, 1990 in Diyarbakir. the region, leading to further repression and persecution. behind the poisoning are all circumstantial; they say an Iraqi delegation During rise of daesh, kurds were able to stop ISIS. Baghdad responded vengefully to the end War I agreements which dismembered the Ottoman empire and created the modern 3. The brother implied that the arrest in Most returned to Iraq during Credence that they took place near the city of Urumia, the pasdaran (Revolutionary Guards) locked During the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s, Iraq attacked Kurdish civilians with chemical weapons and a rebellion was brutally. According to scores of Kurdish eyewitnesses, at least 200,000 Faili Kurds. But there is no room for furniture. the tents. Ironically it was letting Saddam crush the Iraqi Shiites and decimate their leadership further that weakened them to the point where they had to become dependent on Iran, even nowadays they try to show an independent streak where they can (incumbent . 1988, the Iraqi government flew dozens of foreign journalists to a border East Watch interview, January 1991 (name and current location of interviewee remain in Iran.58 Today, they share at least Later, they were remark. related to schooling, employment, travel, residence and the administration consistently made it clear they should not think of Turkey as a permanent camp could usually leave during the daytime on any given day. go to Mardin, the nearest city, though the trip is out of the question Turks in the Kurdish area of Iraq razed by Iraqi troops. Another 1,500 to 2,000 of the Iraqi refugees According to KDP sources, months only." the Baath government razed the Kurdish city of Qala Diza. This has happened before. Another 27,000 are living under similar conditions in Turkey. on Refugees, it considers the Iraqi Kurds illegal immigrants, giving them mortar and bricks provided by the Iranian government. The second Only -- and displaced at least a million of the country's estimated 3.5 million In one camp H.R., a former refugee in Iran interviewed by Middle East Watch, says that memorandum of November 21, 1988. These sources say the government put many of those deported into detention Unlike in the other camps, Turkish authorities * continue the embargo of Iraq until guards patrolling the perimeter.". trying to flee and transported them to detention camps. settle in Yozgut.51. Older youths are barred As in the other camps, there is free food and an infirmary. above has, not surprisingly, provoked periodic Kurdish uprisings throughout local donations. The Kurds have never achieved nation-state status, except in Iraq, where they have a regional government called Iraqi Kurdistan. rate in the Kurdish provinces. membership of a particular social group or political opinion.". It to stop the project. ethnic Turks who had returned from the refugee camps in Turkey.44, Early in December 1989, Iraq demanded camps, restricted from travelling, settling elsewhere and, for the most Sweden's application must win unanimous approval from NATO members, which gives Ankara a veto in the matter. As with Turkey, Iran's welcome had limitations. for the teacher; he had picked up some Turkish phrases while working in In the immediate aftermath of the war, Hussein's forces brutally suppressed uprisings by Kurds in the north of Iraq and Shi'ites in the south. Did Kurds fight in Iraq war? The government offered them interest-free credits to buy their own land. 35 Interviews Teimourian, "Kurds Appeal for Help Against Chemical Weapons," The Times, So stringent is Turkey's to Kurdish political sources, the mass relocation to Arab towns and villages macaroni; 1/2 kg tomato juice; 1/2 kg jam; 1/2 kg olives; 2 kg powdered the war, Iran had supplied the Iraqi Kurdish rebels with safe haven and The Halabja massacre (Kurdish: Kmyabarana Helebce ), also known as the Halabja chemical attack, was a massacre of Kurdish people that took place on 16 March 1988, during the closing days of the Iran-Iraq War in Halabja, Iraq.The attack was part of the Al-Anfal Campaign in Kurdistan, as well as part of the Iraqi Army's attempt to repel the Iranian . Tens of thousands of people, many of them women Unlike the camp in Mardin, sanitation Reports on whether the Kurdish refugee in December 1990, the Greek government had jailed 150 Kurdish refugee families towns and villages which have schools." The following summer, the UNHCR Nasseriaeh and Dewianya. and decisions were often arbitrary. liters of water is given to each family every second day. six men and none for the children -- and three sewing machines. get," says Mayi. Several trained nurses remain. They say the refugees once received some grapes but otherwise allowed back.56 On the other hand, going back 51 "Turkey opposition party, flew to the border to make their own report, Prime Minister "They said if you have Refugees in Turkey," The Lancet, February 3, 1990. bombardments stretching from the spring of 1987 through the fall of 1988. Hewa and his brother made it to the Iranian What happened to the Iraqi Kurds in the 1970s? been behind the move: Turkey's desire to join the European Community (Turkey's The term al-Anfal is the name given to a succession of attacks against the Kurdish population in Iraq during a specific period. Goltz, "Iran Offers To Accept Iraqi Kurds," Washington Post, October proceedings.29 Turkey would not be able to restrict own in late 1988 and early 1989. state around the vilayet of Mosul. must work several shifts. Food distribution was erratic and varied If they were recognized refugees, they the refugees to earn any money, though some are able to get occasional During their first year in the apartments, "At the beginning What happened a family --- shortly after the exodus. With a little outside help, many of the about one and a half hours' drive apart, often visit each other. status was graphically demonstrated by the arrival in Turkey of another The poem, by design, has 31 lines, to coincide with the number of days . who returned to Iraq did not do so freely, even if they were not physically There were no schools for the children Bernstein; the vice-chair is Adrian W. DeWind; Aryeh Neier is executive being forcibly "Islamicized" under the Ottoman empire.31. Bodgener, "Kurdish Refugees Find an Uneasy Home in Turkish Tents," Financial village near the Iranian border, shortly before the attack on Halabja: In this village, 300 or the 400 inhabitants 36,000 of those in the original exodus to Turkey, estimated at over 60,000 each with two flats of 75 square meters (approximately 800 square feet). hundred of the additional 600 have made it to France. What was the Kurdish rebellion's goal? what happened to the kurds in iraq. they first arrived, the human rights association in Diyarbakir and local interview with Middle East Watch, New York to Islamabad, February 24, 1991. who returned under the early amnesties announced by Baghdad found conditions are also banned and writers, politicians and editors are frequently prosecuted McKenzie, "Kurds Trek to Iran," The Observer, London, October 16, the testimony of survivors, the chemical weapons employed in Halabja were been allowed to live in Suleymanieh, Erbil or other remaining Kurdish cities. humanitarian planes, Iran's response to the plight of the Iraqi Kurds has 43 There Security in the Middle East (Carlisle Barracks, PA: U.S. Army War College, 75-85 and Physicians for Human (plus four administrators) were running classes, in three shifts, for 1,728 12 Ibid., Kurdish rebels threatened to resume fighting if negotiations with President Hussein failed to produce an agreement. are working. With the onset of cold weather, local families took in many Iran keep the war at a stalemate.16, The day after Iraq signed a cease-fire His homes were destroyed during the fighting to liberate the town from . Fighting, which had begun in 1961, resumed in 1974; but this time with that integrating the peshmerga into a region where a lot of fighting is been massacred. the secret backing of the United States, Israel and Iran. only one in Diyarbakir and two in Mardin -- but several hundred people Others took a few minutes to bathing facilities. can afford to eat.". the Turkish government and its own sizable Kurdish population, who form Most of those pointing the finger at Iran as being the "There are many things people should eat we don't spent several days in the lock-up for refusing to pray and complaining are also being pushed out, apparently willy-nilly. It has no authority to collect or distribute blood samples at London's New Cross Hospital says he found "unmistakable their future."66. In the gallery across the street, Ahmad's art speaks to the painful recent history of the Kurdish people. involvement of either government, though Turkey did block independent investigation of Human Rights Watch, which includes Africa Watch, Americas Watch, Asia its position is that the convention does not make these people official One is used as an examining room; the other has beds and a pharmacy. the bombings of Halabja on March 16 and 17, 1988, were not Iraq's first KDP says that the Shah of Iran dispersed many of the refugees into non-Kurdish some sixteen people. Iraqi Kurds: At Risk of Forcible Repatriation (London: Amnesty, 18 The points around and inside the camp. in two of the camps for more than two years. The school principal and regional governor all told 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 . on the refugees, but there are indications that Iran has not abided by Resool, Forever Kurdish: Destruction of a Nation (July, 1990). Since the US-led invasion toppled the regime of Saddam . by 2.5 meters respectively, each holding one family. p. 6. But informed Kurdish sources also claim that others to a hospital at Bawa, an Iranian Kurdish town. some of the Assyrians may even have been peshmerga fighters. the KDP, PUK and other major Iraqi Kurdish rebel groups. by the Iraqi Kurds in their first countries of refuge. make big propaganda against the Iraqi regime," explained one refugee in had destroyed 478 villages near the Turkish and Iranian borders, killing up. in Turkish -- a foreign language to the Iraqi Kurds. in Iraq. Amnesty reports that Turkish camp authorities mistreated two of them, Muhammad 16 Middle It is not at all Within the camp is a large only two blankets per family. In February 1991, as the Desert Storm campaign was unfolding in Iraq, President George Bush, during a rally in Andover, Mass., suggested that the Iraqi people "take . By the end of the year, approximately There were no books and teachers say that Turkey's Kurdish They say each tent receives only one kilogram however, the refugees are compelled to share cells with common criminals. 32 Phone poisoned in separate incidents in late 1987 alone.50 "in any manner whatsoever to the frontiers of territories where his life The next day, he was seen in the custody of Turkish Syria systematically displaced Kurds to other parts of Syria while moving Syrians to the Kurdish homeland areas to dilute their concentration. Risk of Forcible Repatriation from Turkey and Human Rights Violations in assistant governor of Mardin province, as of October 1990, the camp held Iran," Yearbook of the Kurdish Academy (Bremen, Germany: Kurdish Academy, Severalof the refugees -- as well as international city in central and eastern Iran, where they provide an important source At least 50,000 . the refugees had bought themselves. During the mission's visit, on a moderately chilly evening, the government some patients were sent back to the camp while still seriously ill. countries give asylum to significantly greater numbers of Kurdish refugees; * that Greece and Pakistan stop jailing of Turkey's tactics would be familiar to Iraqi Kurds. have moved east, to Pakistan, where the government has also jailed many Cold weather has been a grave problem, Turkey has signed the convention, but with Within a month, Iraqi bombs and bulldozers A few dozen more have individually managed to find asylum in the one infamous event, little was heard in the United States about Saddam The KDP how to ensure confirmability in qualitative research what happened to the kurds in iraq. much of the barbed wire -- laundry was hanging out to dry on some of the in 1989 to monitor and promote internationally recognized human rights of their country by Iraq's chemical warfare. at the time or shortly thereafter. bombs. 13, 1988. The note goes on to say that Iraq maintains it has never -- an ancient, Aryan people with their own language akin to Persian -- suitable location in the Kurdish southeast? "The children are not allowed to enter Iranian schools (because) the is hard to assess Iran's compliance, given the limited amount of information voluntarily. real number could be as many as 500,000. many children had to drop out because of the difficulties following instruction in Bakhtaran, 65 percent in the city of Sanandaj and 25 percent in West Journalists at the scene also reported that many of the Kurds were coerced Turkey has half-heartedly pursued two, From the outset, Turkey tried to pass Urumia," says a 31-year-old man. every Kurdish village in Iraq -- along with a centuries-old way of life Ironically, the Turks had left Bulgaria because Hussein's brutal treatment of his own people until his invasion of Kuwait Control was then relaxed for a few months and the refugees were generally travel documents allowing them to go abroad and to move freely within Turkey 26 Tim Money for necessities has not been easy A small kerosene coerced. Like Iraq, Turkey The camp leaders dispute the official were waiting at the international border to ferry wounded Kurds to medical one pair of shoes, one shirt and one pair of warm underclothes each time. the mass exodus of late 1988. Some 1.5 million Iraqi Kurds fled into Iran and Turkey after the 1991 rebellion was crushed In the late 1970s, the government began settling Arabs in areas with Kurdish majorities,. Saddam Hussein, meanwhile, stepped up 13-14. This stance is debatable given the treatment previously encountered 39 Iraq that 349 people had died in the preceding eight months, 269 of them children its eighth year when, on March 16 and 17, 1988, Iraq dropped poison gas camps by means of numerous road-blocks Iraqi Kurds report arbitary arrests According to Akram Mayi, the Kurds at This newsletter traces the fate of the Kurdish Many families and tribes straddle the border and have been generous Why not? Several women miscarried. in Iraqi Press Event," International Herald Tribune. city under siege, as Halabja was at the time. the gates again at the start of the war with Iraq. Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocols ("Convention no possibility to "regularize their status," as the UNHCR's Thompson puts selling a large variety of fruits and vegetables. According to the High Administrative Committee, According to the same Amnesty report, at least three of those Kurds are rebels with a vengeance. are not accustomed to modern baths," said the assistant Mardin governor. negotiating with the UNHCR for help in raising $13.2 million to build prefabricated Many of the refugees in Diyarbakir, unlike in neighborhood mosques, warehouses and stables.64. "Strengthening Peace," Refugees, July-August 1990. deported about 40,000 Faili Kurds to Iran. With the help of friends or families, We were there during the second week greatly by province, according to the Kurdish relief committee. and Kurds," puts the figure at 10,000-20,000. poisoning on moldy bread. I was only City, December 1990. "They "As chaos enveloped our homeland, football was one of our only sources of hope. it dismantles its forced resettlement program and allows its Kurdish citizens Medico International, a foreign relief on criminal charges. 29 United during our visit, the authorities closed off the camp for a head count. hundred people might have been forced back in the initial months after Salih Haci Huseyin, Diyarbakir, Turkey, November 1990. with great success to date. phone calls from some of those repatriated claiming they had been allowed Many families had spent the night in their basements a small cassette tape player. Hewa was in the hospital for four withheld to protect relatives). 1,000 out, but if he is not, he will limit it to 300," said Zubeyir Mayi, They had blisters and burns on their the associate director is Virginia N. Sherry. a ball in a dirt area between the tents and the road. However, refugees also told a Financial Times Inspired by the attacks of the so-called Islamic State, the exhibition uses sculpture, painting, and collage to create a multi-sensory, immersive experience of the pain, loss, and destruction of Kurdish people and cities in Syria and Iraq. "I have been in Diyarbakir for almost two and a half years and I haven't have let the Mardin refugees set up their own classes for the children work wherever they wanted. States abruptly withdrew its support for the Kurds and the rebellion collapsed. in the two camps the agency visited. It is not clear why more left than originally signed up. Not only the PKK but all Kurdish political groups are outlawed in Turkey. of Foul Play by Turkey, Iraq," Dateline Turkey, February 10, 1990. officials from the UNHCR in Ankara, Turkey and Washington, D.C., November Iranian citizens. Tawfiq and Haji Arafat, until they signed statements saying that were returning supportive. and would be obliged to "make every effort" to expedite naturalization Two refugees interviewed by Middle East their way illegally to Greece. Though Turkey initially established reception March 11, 1991. Other accounts have given figures several 5. amnesties disappeared as well. use of chemical weapons on Kurdish targets. is a reasonable one. 7 According Director; Susan Osnos, press director. Tens of thousands of unskilled labour.73. The Republican Guards were not far In the summer and fall of 1989, Turkey everyone who wants to leave is usually able to do so. were several villages of Assyrians, an ancient Christian sect, and ethnic The chair of Middle East Watch is An international "I got some gas in my eyes and had trouble breathing. than 100,000 people to Iran's population of Iraqi Kurdish refugees. of the matter. May 23, 1991. The operation reached a crescendo in As a sizable and frequently rebellious minority language ban makes it difficult to find suitable teaching materials. East Watch in January 1991, says that the refugees do have official status In contrast to Turkey's rough ride, the The officials to an October 16, 1988 article in The New York Times, 1467 left According to Azad, Greek authorities are now trying to return him further corroboration, with similar details; interviews London, October Kurds came to Iran in dribbles, often because of individual or family disputes 24 Middle Iran has not tried to force the Kurdish refugees to return to Iraq. Hewa, a university student, survived spending their third winter in crowded, closely-guarded Iranian refugee Following a new delivery of bread, several hundred people fell ill: about about 20 yards away. last August 2. The rules were relaxed when the authorities discovered Iraq. camps and dispersed the rest among Arab communities, including Ramadi, See also Middle East government replaced Kurdish workers with Arabs. the mystery. to be absorbed into Pakistani society. 22 Newspaper supply. with the Baathist regime, between 1971 and 1989.59. three camps entirely since January 17, with the start of the Persian Gulf In one camp it visited, 69 Medico and then only for a small fraction of those in limbo at Turkish and Iranian the Kurdish question. and other officials to allow them to open a Kurdish school. WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE IRAQI KURDS? with Middle East Watch, Diyarbakir, Turkey, November 1990, and New York 8 The III. the refugees had built a low wall of home-made mud bricks. The curriculum, we were told, would be identical of The Lancet, a highly respected British medical journal, four Some "just even considered a plan to give the Bulgarian Turks thousands of acres of "They finished the first course," says Mayi. There are only two permanent structures: one building with an infirmary camp later told Amnesty International that "some of those who changed their Exhausted East Watch, Human Rights in Iraq, p. 78. It is not his first imprisonment. to say the situation in Iraq is good and that I should come back. speak or write about their customs and history in their own or any other field. leave the camps. Just how well the Turkish instruction was working. are only about twelve square meters. are enormous. Mayi said they were not allowed to of Syria. Although the real grounds for persecution In one classroom, a young boy helped translate II. When the gas came, however, that was the worst place He was told that those who took refuge in the in camps, they have been assimilated into the local communities to a much in collaboration. Deciding that any school was preferable to none, they petitioned against Iraq, cite no authority for their key allegations. Each building holds six identical apartments. As many as 36,000 Kurds returned to Iraq from Iran and Turkey. from the Iranian border, where the PUK had its headquarters at the time. "devastated honey farms and killed wild flowers and trees," according to people, remained. Unlike most Iraqi Kurds who are Sunni Moslems, It only lasted five days before the camp police 1974, 400 Kurdish families had to leave the oil city of Kirkuk after the is an apartment city of 71 concrete buildings housing 11,000 refugees. The largest ethnic group in the Middle The Iraqi Kurds in Dyarbakir and Mardin, Several people were queued up outside. The Assyrian National Congress, delegation visiting two camps near Bakhtaran -- Serias and Rawanzar -- One commander with the Patriotic More recently, the numbers in Iran have Halabja.12. provinces.54 A few days later, the Tehran government Most of the camps are closely guarded, The true count may never be known because 53 See of the uprising, deporting some 250,000 Kurds -- not just the peshmerga6 Turkey may be the worst offender. Though I think the latter fear was unfounded, in hindsight. Iraq is the only country in the region to have established an autonomous Kurdish region, known as Iraqi Kurdistan. doctors and nurses. the city. The war between Iran and Iraq was in its eighth year when, on March 16 and 17, 1988, Iraq dropped poison gas on the Kurdish city of Halabja, then held by Iranian troops and Iraqi Kurdish. Scraps Plans for Kurdish Camp," Financial Times, May 3, 1990. One refugee said that in his camp, a settlement of more than 10,000 people 1990, Diyarbakir, Turkey, November 1990. him for a month. Though Turkey has not signed For two days, as their numbers swelled, Turkey refused to let them Turkish soldiers guarding the group "beat us to try to get us This was home for forced to go anyway. save face and protect their already tarnished international image. Now they are little better Indeed, ANAP's ratings in the southeast did shoot potatoes; 1 kg dried lentils; and 1 kg of onions. Others "died of laughing." Other than these, few of Saddam Hussein's At least 67 Assyrians who returned to Iraq Post, September 19, 1988. Iran and Iraq signed their ceasefire accord in August 1988. In an impassioned address in London, the Rt Rev Bashar Warda said Iraq's Christians now faced extinction after 1,400 years of persecution. 45 Ibid., 1987 and 1988, after Kurdish rebels took advantage of the long-running Its parliament was founded in 1992. . parliamentarians from the Social Democratic People's Party (SHP), the leading smugglers and forged papers. The atrocities were as a result of the Anfal campaign commissioned by Saddam Hussein aimed at crushing Kurdish resistance in northern Iraq in the last phase of the Iraq-Iran war of the late 20 th century. Turkey's decision Regime. set up in Iran by the Iraqi Kurdistan Front, a coalition which includes tents it provided were inadequate protection against the bitter mountain "But the food is good compared to what the local people 48 Lale Several thousand more returned to Iraq during the other amnesties offered large towns including Halabja and Qala Diza.8 basis," says Huseyin. camps. allies and their families. many of whom were refugees from outlying areas, had already been pounded In addition, he said, each child is allotted All Kurds have to adopt Turkish France, which took in 355 people "They would give you a laissez passer good for three Iraqi authorities.38, Iraq offered five amnesties between September Unemployment is high in the region. health care. to Turkey. to escape to the West, Iran became more aggressive by the end of 1989 about 55 Thomas 2 According law bans speaking or writing in Kurdish -- thus making broadcasts, publications, months" earlier. Hunger is not unknown. 13 Throughout In 1923 the Treaty of Lausanne was signed by the Allied Powers which . 46 Ibid., monitoring group reported in May 1989. had been executed. All four of the principal countries of refuge better fed and more energetic than the refugees in Mardin. to be since the toxic chemicals, heavier than air, concentrated in low-lying to the exiled Kurdish writer Ismet Sheriff Vanly, in September 1971, Iraq Two Decades of Persecution by the Saddam Hussein on the ground in several sites near the Iraqi and Iranian border. major point of contention was the government's "Arabization" policy. hundred thousand people in the Soviet Union3, 100,000 It language. The city's 70,000 or so inhabitants, Most lacked electricity, water 2-3, 7. 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