Now after approximately 28 years, Arab countries and the West turned a blind-eye to the atrocities committed by the Saddam regime against a civilian population.
According to official statistics, during the first seven months of operations nearly 4,200 villages were demolished and nearly 182,000 of armless Kurds residents exterminated in the areas of Kirkuk, Diyala, Nineveh and Salahuddin.
According to UN and many Human Rights Watch reports these crimes were classified as the most horrific crimes that Baathist regime committed against Iraqi Kurds in the region of Kurdistan. It must be mentioned the forced evictions carried out by Baathist forces in the villages of the two cities of Jmajal and Kalar (Halabja, Al-Tawelah, Khurmal, Sayed Sediq, Penguin, Dezah Castle, Sankser, Jwarna, Kalajulan and Mawhet) where many Kurds have been displaced and fled to neighboring countries.
The Genocide of Iraqi Kurds
Hundreds of thousands of men, women and children were executed during a systematic attempt to exterminate the Kurdish population in Iraq in the Anfal operations in the late 1980s.
They were tied together and shot so they fell into mass graves. Their towns and villages were attacked by chemical weapons, and many women and children were sent to camps where they lived in appalling conditions.
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A Kurdish woman survivor of the Anfal genocide campaign greets the remains of Anfal victims returned to the Kurdistan Region after more than two decades.[/caption]Men and boys of battle age were targeted and executed en masse. The campaign takes its name from Surat al-Anfal in the Quran. Al-Anfal literally means the spoils (of war) and was used to describe the military campaign of extermination and looting commanded by Saddam's cousin Ali Hassan al-Majid (known as the Chemical Ali). The Baathists misused what the Quran says. Anfal in the Quran does not refer to genocide, but the word was used as a code name by the former Iraqi Baathist regime for the systematic attacks against the Kurdish population.
Both the Iraqi government and parliament have recognized Anfal as genocide perpetrated by Saddam Hussein, against the Kurdish people.
Meanwhile a number of international governments have recognized the Anfal campaign as genocide against Iraqs Kurdish population, including Sweden, Norway, the United Kingdom and South Korea.
MKO involvement in Anfal
After the US occupation of Iraq and the arrest of Saddam Hussein and several of his aides who were convicted of crimes against humanity and genocide in Iraq Special Court for Iraqi officials Crimes.
The terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) was involved in the aforementioned crimes that has the support and care of many countries advocating Human Rights. What is ironic about this organization that claims religious commitment is its activity in a country like France, the state in which Muslim women nationals are prevented from wearing headscarves or carrying out religious ceremonies in official circles.
Saudi Arabia the state that boasts of supporting and protecting terrorists groups in the region, with no doubt, is the most important supporter of the terrorist organization whose hands are stained in the blood of more than 17,000 Iranians.
Khalq Hypocrites organization is significantly active in the French capital holding conferences and official meetings, of which the most recent brought together organization's leaders and Saudi Prince Turki Al-Faisal.
The MKO terrorist organization also had a record of assassinating around 12000 high ranking Iranian officials. This group initially, did find its place on some Western states terror list. Yet a while later, and in a coordinated attempt, was taken off. The roots of the MKO go back to the pre-revolutionary era.
In 2012 the US also removed the MKO from a state departments so-called black list. This is at a time though, when the prominent US journalist, Seymor Hersch revealed in 2012, that the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) within the years of 2005-2009 had been busy training the MKO in Nevada deserts. Hershs revelations confirm the MKO receiving intercepting communications, cryptography, weaponry and small unit tactics training from the JSOC there.
Now, here is a question that poses itself:
Why MKO is not prosecuted for their participation in crimes committed against the Kurds in Iraq, the same way Saddam had been?
Unfortunately, this organization is still active in the sponsoring countries in the silence of human rights organizations and others. No verdict has been issued against this terrorist organization either.
