Category: Mass Graves

No Mother’s Day for Kurdish Mothers

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Kurdish mothers did not celebrate Mother’s Day this year either. Some of them have children who are guerillas in the mountains, some of them are behind bars, and some have lost their lives in conflicts. Özgür Gündem Newspaper in Turkey …

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Human Bones Found in Kurdish Cities in Turkey

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Kurdistan is a region whose residents have not had the right to choose a long life with natural death for decades. Kurds have been exposed to numerous crimes against humanity ever since Kurdistan, their country, was divided into four parts …

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25 years after Halabja: Remembering the Kurdish genocide in Iraq

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Today marks the 25th anniversary of the Halabja genocide in Iraq. AKR author Minhaj Akreyi had written this post detailing the tragedy: The Halabja Genocide killed around 5,000 men, women, children, and elders; injured more than 10,000; thousands still missing; …

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Kurds criticize Turkish government’s silence on mass graves

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A report from the Turkish daily, Hurriyet, regarding reactions to the recently discovered mass graves in the Kurdish regions of Turkey: ISTANBUL – Daily News with wires – Thousands of people marched Wednesday in eastern Turkey to protest what they …

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Iraqi Kurdistan: Hundreds of Children Found in Mass Grave

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Below is a report by the Hewlar Tribune about the unearthing of three mass graves in Iraqi Kurdistan. The graves were filled with remnants of 272 bodies of Kurdish children who were murdered during the Al-Anfal campaign by Saddam Hussein. …

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Living with the aftermath of Saddam's Kurdish genocide

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Years before the Saddam regime targeted civilians on their Kurdish identity, it targeted people with associations to the Barzan tribe (Mizori Balla, Sherwanis, Dolamaris and of course Barzanis from the village of Barzan). Some 8,000 Barzani males over the age …

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Spiegel: Turkey's Dirty War Against the Kurds

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From Spiegel Online, Daniel Steinvorth in Istanbul Reports: Part I: ‘We Used to Murder People at Night When the Soldiers Weren’t Around’ When members of the special Turkish police unit Jitem arrived at night, Kurdish inhabitants of southeast Turkey knew …

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Turkish officer detained over missing Kurds

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Associated Press – Media reports say police have detained a military officer allegedly implicated in the disappearance of Kurds thought to have been executed by security forces. Prosecutors are investigating whether the Kurds, who went missing in the 1990s, were …

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