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Anfal campaign
Sign in to saveAlso known as Kurdish genocide, Al-Anfal campaign, Anfal genocide
1986 genocidal campaign against the Kurdish people
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Within Vinony's link graph, Anfal campaign is referenced by 777 other articles, and connects out to Saddam Hussein, Kurdish and Sulaymaniyah.
Vinony files it under 1988 in Iraqi Kurdistan, 20th-century mass murders in Iraq and Arabization.
Its subject is documented across 39 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Location
- Northern Iraq
- Date
- February–September 1988
- Target
- Peshmerga , and Kurdish civilians
- Attack type
- Genocide ethnic cleansing mass murder deportation chemical warfare enforced disappearance counterinsurgency
- Deaths
- See Death toll : 50,000–100,000 (per HRW ) 182,000 ( PUK claim)
- Perpetrator
- Ba'athist Iraq Iraqi Armed Forces Jash forces National Defense Battalions
- Motive
- Counterinsurgency , Anti-Kurdish sentiment , Arabization
- Convicted
- Ali Hassan al-Majid , Hussein Rashid , Farhan Jubouri
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- military campaign
- Part of
- Iraqi–Kurdish conflict
- Location
- Iraq
- Image
- Iraqi mass grave.jpg
- Number of deaths
- 50000
- Participant
- Masoud Barzani
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- start time
- 1986-00-00
- end time
- 1989-00-00
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Categories
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