Al-Anfal Campaign !!!

The campaign

In March 1987, Saddam Hussein's cousin from his hometown of Tikrit, Ali Hassan al-Majid, was appointed secretary-general of the Ba'ath Party's Northern Region, which included Iraqi Kurdistan. Under al-Majid, who "even by the standards of the Ba'ath security apparatus ... had a particular reputation for brutality," control of policies against the Kurdish insurgents passed from the Iraqi Army to the Ba'ath Party itself.
This was the prelude to the intended "final solution" to the Kurdish problem undertaken within months of al-Majid's arrival in his post. It would be known as "al-Anfal" ("The Spoils"), in a reference to the eighth sura of the Qur'an.
Anfal, officially conducted between February 23 and September 6, 1988, would have eight stages altogether, seven of them targeting areas controlled by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. For these assaults, the Iraqis mustered up to 200,000 soldiers with air support -- matched against Kurdish guerrilla forces that numbered no more than a few thousand.

Statistics

One of 24 Assyrian churches bombed in 1988. Other groups such as Assyrians, Shabaks, and Turkmen were targeted as well.
During the Anfal campaign, the Iraqi government:
spirited away or killed an argueable 182,000 Iraq Kurds (figures are hard to estimate because of the scale of destruction)
destroyed about 4,000 villages in Iraqi Kurdistan [4]
destroyed 1,754 schools, 270 hospitals, 2,450 mosques, 27 churches[5]
wiped out around 90% of Kurdish villages in targeted areas


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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anfal

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