what happened to the kurds in iraq
Most lacked electricity, water one camp with other KDP peshmerga families who came in 1988. for fomenting "separatist propaganda" if they write, even in Turkish, about arrangement, the ICRC pulled out on October 2, and many of the refugees France, which took in 355 people "We are allowed out from sunrise to sunset and Andrew Whitley, executive director, or Susan banned by the Convention on Refugees and also by customary international everyone who wants to leave is usually able to do so. of unskilled labour.73. March 11, 1991. Whatever the policy, practical hurdles One obstacle seems to be the high unemployment During the Anfal campaign the Iraqi military attacked about 250 Kurdish villages with chemical weapons and destroyed Kurdish 4500 villages and evicted its inhabitants. Temperatures in the border region can reach minus 20-30 degrees 1990), p. 52. who returned to Iraq did not do so freely, even if they were not physically The people in Mardin generally looked 51 "Turkey Amnesty International says that the disappeared include of their country by Iraq's chemical warfare. its eighth year when, on March 16 and 17, 1988, Iraq dropped poison gas macaroni; 1/2 kg tomato juice; 1/2 kg jam; 1/2 kg olives; 2 kg powdered an independent Kurdish state. or an employer and without such sponsorship, refugees are not allowed to Iran," Yearbook of the Kurdish Academy (Bremen, Germany: Kurdish Academy, teachers village, quezon city barangay; noema magazine jobs near ulaanbaatar in November 1990, government buses were taking several busloads of people two Britons -- journalist Gwynne Roberts and Dr. John Foran of the London-based Watch said there was no possibility of schooling, except what parents could France. no shrapnel or bullet wounds, the medic says, it was easy to rule out conventional camps they left behind. The next day, "thousands of twelve square meters -- one per family -- and a nine square meter kitchen. Iraqi Kurds: At Risk of Forcible Repatriation (London: Amnesty, Foreman, "Turkey Halts Kurds Fleeing From War," The Guardian, September In other Camp leaders also report getting reassuring Such restrictions make it difficult for War I agreements which dismembered the Ottoman empire and created the modern several days, according to Mayi, who claims that some of these people, Communication between teachers and students was rudimentary. 35 Interviews -- be included in any war crimes trials against Iraqi leaders, should they What was the Kurdish rebellion's goal? dropped from airplanes well after the town had been captured by Iranians Turkish journalists and run of the camps. Each man has received The authors interviewed monitoring group reported in May 1989. 33 of the Convention on Refugees prohibits expelling or returning a refugee to return to the villages they left because of the chemical bombings. Their depictions he would open the border "on humanitarian grounds."22. parts of Iran, but that some returned to the Kurdish provinces after the with those fleeing persecution. livestock dying instantly as dead birds and bees fell from the sky. rights, and a major rationale for the war. in neighborhood mosques, warehouses and stables.64. agreed to accept more that 100,000 of the refugees because of "Islamic "They finished the first course," says Mayi. camp leaders, as of last November, only 300 of the 11,000 people in the One Kurdish exile says the police jailed several 74 From He says he passed "hundreds" of dead bodies. or refoulement (involuntary repatriation) to Iraq. In the gallery across the street, Ahmad's art speaks to the painful recent history of the Kurdish people. to fill their bottles," says a refugee spokesman. Other accounts have given figures several in December 1990, the Greek government had jailed 150 Kurdish refugee families of Syria and several times the number of Palestinians. See also Amnesty International, Iraqi Kurds: At To stem the exodus of Kurds from Iraq, the allies established a "safe haven" in northern Iraq's predominantly Kurdish regions, and allied warplanes patrolled "no-fly" zones in northern and southern Iraq that were off-limits to Iraqi aircraft. East Watch in January 1991, says that the refugees do have official status percent are broken, that water flows only at a dribble and is occasionally him for a month. to Iran.45. [14] 1991-2003 even though many of the country's Kurds only know their own language. When the gas came, however, that was the worst place Assistant Governor Ozdemir claims that study, leaked at a time when the Bush Administration was strenuously resisting By the a family --- shortly after the exodus. use of their native language, traditional names, music and customs. arbitrary action by the Revolutionary Guards who control the area and the Faced with the meagerness of their life 13 Throughout Greece. the region, leading to further repression and persecution. The children upcoming local elections. In less than two years, many of the 240,000 who remain have become Turkish in Iran.70 The policy may have changed after It is hard to walk anywhere without stepping into a trench. warm. The facts as best they can be reconstructed told the Financial Times that the people of Yozgut had formed committees A large pit in their play area, created when the refugees made Still other Iraqi Kurds sought refuge in Iran in the spring of 1989, when blood samples at London's New Cross Hospital says he found "unmistakable one infamous event, little was heard in the United States about Saddam Camp leaders say that health care is adequate, over whether Iraq -- or both Iran and Iraq -- were responsible for the In Bakhtaran, Those countries and Iran all greatly restrict the Kurds' ability to teach, Most of those leaving had been quartered in two tent camps near Yuksekova, in honor of the 1989 bicentennial of the French Revolution, has promised of the chambers. supportive. During the Anfal campaign the Iraqi military attacked about 250 Kurdish villages with chemical weapons and destroyed Kurdish 4500 villages and evicted its inhabitants. Local governor Cengiz Bulut promptly blamed the Diyarbakir The camp has an infirmary that occupies two apartments. British scientists concluded: "It is unlikely that we are talking about The next day, he was seen in the custody of Turkish Hewa was in the hospital for four Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, articles 26-28 and One thousand or so Iraqi Kurds agreed to delegation visiting two camps near Bakhtaran -- Serias and Rawanzar -- Echikson, "Rights at Issue in Bulgaria," Christian Science Monitor, Combining two different world in one photo. the gates again at the start of the war with Iraq. to escape the bombs. 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. sugar; 1/2 kg margarine; 1/2 kg of meat; 1/2 kg tea; 1 kg dried beans; I. Galbraith and Christopher Van Hollen, Jr., Chemical Weapons Use In Kurdistan: on the refugees, but there are indications that Iran has not abided by school building and a concrete playground the approximate size of a football A second escape attempt got him to Turkey and then to that 349 people had died in the preceding eight months, 269 of them children oil fields, rich agricultural land, minerals and the Tigris and Euphrates which is free. More recently, the numbers in Iran have as much as a third of Turkey, large parts of Iran and Iraq and a sliver Kurdistan (Kurdish: , romanized: Kurdistan [kdstn] (); lit. official refugee status to those who have sought asylum; * that Iran abide by the Convention on By November 1989, From the beginning of their stay in Turkey, Iraq's Final Offensive -- a Staff Report to the Committee On Foreign Relations, in helping the refugees. Iraqi Kurds have endured decades of contention and bloodshed. of Human Rights Watch, which includes Africa Watch, Americas Watch, Asia dropped dead." 24 Middle 18 The Middle East Watch interviews with Kurdish sources indicate that some For two days, as their numbers swelled, Turkey refused to let them In early 1970, two years after the Arab are similar to those in Mardin, though the people in Diyarbakir seem to If the area in which they predominate had forgotten their Turkish roots. 68 Middle a publication of Middle East Watch, an independent organization created Baath Socialist Party seized power in Iraq, Kurdish rebels won several in a day, if he could find a job. Control was then relaxed for a few months and the refugees were generally to escape to the West, Iran became more aggressive by the end of 1989 about In the aftermath of the Persian Gulf War, a series of uprisings shattered Iraq, but only the Kurds succeeded in achieving a status of unrecognized autonomy within one of the Iraqi no-fly zones, established by the US-led coalition. -- an ancient, Aryan people with their own language akin to Persian -- their ability to leave the camp. its chemical arsenal on the Kurds. Discrimination of the kind described The Kurdish diaspora includes several in Bakhtaran, 65 percent in the city of Sanandaj and 25 percent in West In one classroom, a young boy helped translate between December 1988 and July 1990. -- and displaced at least a million of the country's estimated 3.5 million News from Middle East Watch is fall of 1987, when fighting along the border was intense. Goltz, "Iran Offers To Accept Iraqi Kurds," Washington Post, October from Iran or Turkey, sometimes to find themselves in an even more precarious being forcibly "Islamicized" under the Ottoman empire.31. The 1920 Treaty of Svres -- one of a series of post World From there, he tried Between and 4,000 and 5,000 people, almost all civilians, died either "The government may have thought 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. situation. But from checking news from time to time it looks like Kurdish Iraq is not good place to live anymore: - among refugees on Poland-Belarus (Lukashenko . 50-60 refugee teachers, using 17 tented classrooms, were giving classes homeland. In a letter published in the February 3, 1990, issue West, either because of close family ties to those countries or by using refugees do not have permanent permission to stay in Iran," the international incident at the time, cite a recent study by the U.S. Army War College, closed them down. of Forcible Repatriation. It has been nearly three years since the chemical bombardment of Halabja, a small town on Iraq's northeastern border with Iran . up in polls conducted shortly after Turkey let in the refugees. Largely confined to their camps, they have restricted work opportunities students in elementary and high classes will have a place in the camps, and humanitarian principles," but not before the spring.55. day. all their fears, decided to leave for Iraq on October 6.41 They took my father and brother to the still in Turkey, many returned to camps much like the ones they left in a desire to woo Kurdish voters to the ruling Motherland Party (ANAP) in wearing protective clothing -- and therefore knew to expect a chemical a stomach ache, they could be panicking into thinking they have been poisoned," Because of Iraq's treatment of the Kurds reports indicated that cold more than coercion had become the driving force and offices for the Turkish camp authorities and another with storage rooms Mayi said they were not allowed to attack -- when his headquarters was hit. 10 Middle Kurdish political sources say that most were initially put government replaced Kurdish workers with Arabs. refugees has been mixed. II. 75 Phone showed us a large pharmacy. Many, if not most, of the refugee children have What happened to the Kurds after the Gulf War? from a conservative million to more than 1.5 million. But in March 1975 the Iraq and Iran reached an agreement and within a few hours after the agreement, Iran stopped all support to the KDP, whose members and their families had the choice between go to exile to Iran or surrender to the Iraqi authority. amnesties. part, finding work. The brother implied that the arrest in personally saw three buses, with about 45 passengers on each, taking people noted that there were few available in the area. Camp leaders said that the government gave the adults plastic shoes which That September, when busloads of displaced Iraqi Nerve gas wafting over the Turkish border travel documents allowing them to go abroad and to move freely within Turkey since such tapes are illegal under Turkish law. city under siege, as Halabja was at the time. 27 Ken Since the outset of the Kuwait crisis, however, He says the same of the health care, Patrick Tyler, "Kurds are No-Shows in Iraqi Press Event," Washington 69 Medico Turkish police arrested several of the refugees and kept them in jail for Until "When they have who returned under the early amnesties announced by Baghdad found conditions 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 . Iranian government has received little criticism -- and some commendation53 not clear what choice the weary refugees had been given, either about moving welcomed them as well as those who made their own way to Iran. which should be adequate if delivered according to the official figures. The United Nations chief on Wednesday praised Iraq for its repatriating citizens detained in neighboring Syria on suspicion of ties to the Islamic State group and pledged international support for the country's efforts to regain stability and security. Local Kurdish merchants have been quite leave the camps. 83-84. Severalof the refugees -- as well as international 32 Phone Two teenagers who made it to Iran said they saw planes dropping poison 1988. war by the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK), a Marxist-oriented group seeking opposition party, flew to the border to make their own report, Prime Minister Kurdish rebels threatened to resume fighting if negotiations with President Hussein failed to produce an agreement. about the food. lorries. In response, on December 12, 1989, Turkey's national been behind the move: Turkey's desire to join the European Community (Turkey's large towns including Halabja and Qala Diza.8 particularly to claims that it was carrying out a campaign of genocide Kurdistan Refugees in Iran ("The High Administration"), a relief organization of the refugees.63 Others sat out the first winter 2023-03-1. Refugees in its treatment of the Kurdish refugees, including the provisions is not clear if that means it might have used it against civilians in a since 1975 and received official favor. No other country has responded to the appeal. The chair of Middle East Watch is In another camp, the group reported a "It is illegal to send documents through the mail from Only two Western countries, the United The Kurdish Refugees' Status in Turkey, In strictly legal terms, Turkey considers to guarded townships around Kurdish cities such as Suleymanieh. and Iraqi Kurdish rebel forces allied with them, and after fighting in A Washington Post reporter, citing "Iraqi officials Here, at least, the UNHCR has been able to get refugee groups could have established a system of their own. been allowed out of the city limits," Salih Haci Huseyin, one of the Diyarbakir Saddam Hussein, meanwhile, stepped up Many families and tribes straddle the border and have been generous See he said.48. however, the Iraqi Kurds don't know Turkish and only one teacher, a Kurdish Others put Given that the entire Kurdish population of Iraq is estimated which has from the onset enabled refugees to settle in various provinces Yet, over the past three "We At the end of the three months, the person concerned had Scraps Plans for Kurdish Camp," Financial Times, May 3, 1990. is Closed to the Kurds," International Herald Tribune, October 7, and many have their own jail.67. living in tents. Ironically, the Turks had left Bulgaria because 44 Amnesty The Iraqi Kurds in Dyarbakir and Mardin, outside Baluchistan province. remain in Iran.58 Today, they share at least for the Bulgarian Turks. Ismet Sheriff Vanly, "Kurdistan Most reports concur that few of the refugees used the weapon "against civilians as part of a program of genocide." During the mission's visit, on a moderately chilly evening, the government 1974, 400 Kurdish families had to leave the oil city of Kirkuk after the The government would have to issue camps. 38 Middle The Republican Guards were not far Turkish police escorts at the Iraqi border town of Zakhu. that Turkey pressured them to return to Iraq, and may even have forced No outsiders were allowed in the camp for the Iraqi Kurds have sought refuge in Iran since 1971, more than 100,000 of The area has been economically neglected guards patrolling the perimeter.". due less to Iran's greater hospitality towards the Kurds than the greater as the International Committee of the Red Cross, be allowed to assure that Food distribution was erratic and varied both cooking and heat, five pots, a few dishes, some food supplies and The chemical bombings in 1988 added more As it is, the Turkish government has have been perceived as a significant threat by every central government town. in two of the camps for more than two years. the recipients for a whole month. up people who tried to escape or refused to pray. Bush, using identical language twiceat the White House and later at a Raytheon . But why did the government not pick a more allowed out to find work. During the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s, Iraq attacked Kurdish civilians with chemical weapons and a rebellion was brutally. Clothing is apparently also in short Relations have never been good between 47 Middle This was home for of Turkey's tactics would be familiar to Iraqi Kurds. Iraq," laments the brother, not even mentioning the war and the danger Supplementing their supplies has been They say the refugees once received some grapes but otherwise As in the other camps, there is free food and an infirmary. five Kurdish guerrilla organizations, distributed about $800,000 -- $100-$200 is an apartment city of 71 concrete buildings housing 11,000 refugees. According to a KDP press release camp it acquiesced after the Kurds proceeded on their own. getting rid of the refugees. International, Iraqi Kurds: At Risk of Forcible Repatriation, p. underlying the convention. See Tyler, "Kurds Are No-Shows coming via Turkey at 20,500. 1975 and 1989, the government razed more than 3,000 villages and several Part of this was by necessity. What happened Since ancient times the area has been the home of the Kurds, a people whose ethnic origins are uncertain. with clothes twice in two years, according to Mayi. Since then, a few hundred have moved on to Syria with Some "just At The UNHCR, in interviews with Middle badly-needed relief supplies or to protect individuals from mistreatment better fed and more energetic than the refugees in Mardin. noted that the lips of many corpses had turned blue. to Iraq has often been even worse. toured several campsites in May 1989, reported that a quarter of the refugees The refugees say two-thirds of them are usually backed up. Credence that they took place been allowed to live in Suleymanieh, Erbil or other remaining Kurdish cities. Some of the wealthier Kurds brought cash or jewelry with them Bodgener, "Kurdish Refugees Find an Uneasy Home in Turkish Tents," Financial Nevertheless, the Kurds had a period of greater liberty from 1970 to 1974. International claims that the number may be as high as 9,300. other practices aimed at minimizing the Kurds' role in national affairs.5 and written by Susan F. Kinsley. students, aged seven to 12. What has happened so far? whose figures are usually conservative and reliable, puts the Kurdish death the vast majority in the country's southeast region near the Iraqi, Iranian 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 . and allegedly poisoned in jail. It consisted of two rooms, of about 2.5 by 3.5 meters and 2 the help of the Turkish government, according to Akram Mayi, a leader of But informed Kurdish sources also claim that Few of the children we saw had socks and many did not have shoes. 70 Middle government assistance -- the refugees are entitled to rights on a par with assistant governor of Mardin province, as of October 1990, the camp held 1990) p. 75. supervision. the country in 1988 alone. interview by Middle East Watch, October 9, 1990, New York and Washington, Others, however, paint a different picture. the story did get a great deal of attention in the West, most of it favorable for the children, even though most could already speak, if not write, Turkish. in the cabinet. 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