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Kurdish town prepares for mourning Saddam regime’s victims

SULAIMANIYA / IraqiNews.com: A local official of a Kurdish town on Tuesday announced preparations were underway for the transfer ceremonies of corpses killed in the 1980’s by the former regime of Saddam Hussein. “Kallar local authorities in coordination with the Ministry of Martyrs and Anfal Campaign Victims allocated a 100 donums plot as cemetery in Razgari area of Kallar district, 140 km south-west of Sulaimaniya,” a local official told IraqiNews.com. The victims were arrested by the former regime of Saddam Hussein in the 1980s. They were executed and buried in a mass grave in Najaf. A symbolic monument and an art exhibition commemorating the victims would be carried out in a project implemented by Kurdistan’s regional Ministry of Human Rights. Anfal was an anti-Kurdish campaign led by the former regime between 1986 and 1989 and involved a series of military campaigns against the Kurdish Peshmerga fighters as well as the mostly Kurdish civilian population of southern Kurdistan. Independent sources estimate there were 50,000 to more than 100,000 deaths in the campaign, in which chemical weapons were used, while Kurds claim about 182,000 people were killed. AM (S)/SR 1

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