Dan yg nyetop pembantaian thd orang Kurdi itu adalah negara barat, bukan negara Islam.
>________________________________ > From: Bukan Pedanda <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Saturday, June 9, 2012 9:09 PM >Subject: [proletar] Aljazeera: Saddam's brutality still haunts Iraqi Kurds > > > > > >Islam itu adalah ikon kebiadaban. > >Mengerikan. > >http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2012/06/20126694636618340.html > >Relatives and friends share their grief as bodies of 730 victims of infamous >Anfal campaign are reburied. >Jane Arraf Last Modified: 09 Jun 2012 13:28 > >An estimated 500,000 Iraqis, many of them Kurds, lie in unmarked graves, but >identifying them is a difficult task [Reuters] > >Chem Chemal, Iraq - In the framed photo Bahar Mohammad holds, her brother >Salam is eternally young - smiling against a photo studio backdrop of the >Kurdish region's waterfalls, a cartoon bluebird painted in the trees. > >Like tens of thousands of other young Kurdish men, his fate was to be shot and >buried in the sand - to be unearthed 24 years later from a mass grave in the >desert of southern Iraq and brought home. > >"I feel as if he's among these bodies," said Bahar, as she attended a recent >ceremony to rebury 730 bodies brought back from Diwaniya province. But like >all the other relatives here, she can't be certain which is his body. A >surviving witness from the Qadirqaram district where most of the victims were >taken says he saw Salam killed. > >"The Kurdish adviser to the regime told him he should surrender and nothing >would happen to him," she says. Instead they loaded more than 90 men onto >military vehicles and she never saw her younger brother again. Bahar is 57 >years old now, but like almost all the survivors, the pain is as fresh as it >was two decades ago. >Bodies of Kurds killed during Saddam era found in Iraq > >Forensic experts have extracted DNA from the bones of the victims and blood >samples from relatives. But matching them is a massive effort, one neither the >Kurdish nor Iraqi government has the resources to do. > >And the effort to exhume more of the almost 300 mass graves the Kurdish >government believes exists is mired in post-war rivalries and ethnic tension. > >The unearthed bodies were brought to a new monument in Chem Chemal for victims >of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's Anfal campaign during the war with >Iran. > >Estimates of the numbers of Iraqi Kurds killed range from 50,000 from >international human rights groups, to the Kurds' own figure of 182,000. Iraqi >security forces destroyed thousands of Kurdish villages and displaced more >than a million people. > >At a recent ceremony in Suleymaniah, relatives of the missing filled in to sit >in the hot sun. The sobs of old women in black contained decades of grief. >Behind them, elegant young women in sequined abayas and the red and white >sashes of the Barzani clan dabbed their eyes. > >Anfal campaign > >In the summer of 1983, Iraqi forces rounded up thousands of Barzanis, took >them south and shot them in retribution for tribal leaders' alignment with >Iran. > >The Anfal campaign that followed was named after a Koranic verse regarding the >spoils of war. It also encompassed other minority groups in the north of Iraq, >including Assyrian Christians, Yazidis, Shabak, and Sabaeen, but the vast >majority of the victims were Kurds. Human Rights Watch estimates that 50,000 >to 100,000 Kurds were murdered by Iraqi forces. > >Ahmad Ali Hammed was 16 years old and in jail when his mother, two sisters and >two brothers where taken away. He wanders among the rows of flag-covered >coffins, wearing a long shirt on which he has written their names and ages. >His youngest brother was eight years old. > >"I'm the only one who survived in my family," Hammed says. He believes the >Iraqi government doesn't want the bodies to be recovered because it will be an >international reminder of what the Kurds have suffered. > >"These crimes are committed by someone, and we believe they must be punished >to discourage others." " > >- Sabah Ahmed Mohammad, Minister in regional Kurdish government > >Another young woman, among a line of relatives held back by riot police as the >coffins were being driven past, sobbed as she held a framed photo of the >father she never knew. She was one year old when he was taken away. > >Kurdish authorities are trying to get wider international recognition that the >mass killings constituted genocide. Embroiled in a fight with federal >government in Baghdad over land and resources, they are also sending the >message that they will never be as powerless again. > >"Today there are political factions in Iraq making every effort to maintain >the impact of Arabisation, Anfal, and massacres. That is why we have to be >very vigilant," Nechervan Barzani, the Kurdish prime minister, told those >attending the ceremony. > >Kurdish authorities say they know of almost 300 other mass graves. Excavating >them, though, requires approval from the federal government's ministry of >human rights. In addition to returning the bodies to their loved ones, they >want to bring former regime officials involved in the massacres to justice. > >Saddam Hussein was convicted and hung in an unrelated case before being >sentenced to death for the Anfal campaign. His cousin Ali Hassan al-Majid, who >supervised much of the killing, was convicted of genocide and executed. > >"These crimes are committed by someone, and we believe they must be punished >to discourage others," said Sabah Ahmed Mohammad, the Minister of Martyrs and >Anfal Affairs in the regional Kurdish government. "In other places in the >world they found people even after 60 years and brought them to justice." > >Matching DNA samples > >In addition to former regime officials, among the most controversial cases are >Kurdish collaborators with Iraqi security forces whom survivors say are known >but have not been arrested. > >The International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) is working with the >Iraqi and Kurdish governments on a pilot project that would identify some of >the recovered bodies. But properly exhuming the graves, matching DNA samples >with living relatives, and creating a co-ordination centre could take years. >Thousands of members of the Barzani clan were killed for their tribal leaders' >alignment with Iran [Jane Arraf/Al Jazeera] > >"It's an incredibly complicated and incredibly expensive system," says >Jonathan McCaskill, Iraq director for the non-governmental organisation. He >says the ICMP has taken a small number of the DNA samples from the 730 bodies >recovered recently for testing in Sarejevo. "It will give Iraq a chance to >evaluate whether this is something they want to do in the long term." > >The Iraqi ministry of human rights estimates that 500,000 Iraqis are buried in >mass graves, from the 1980s up to the victims of Iraq's sectarian violence >just two years ago. Mass graves near Halabja, where the Saddam regime used >chemical weapons against the Kurds, are still contaminated. > >In the absence of witnesses, many of the families will likely never know what >happened to their loved ones or where they are buried. The bodies unearthed >from the Mahari desert were placed in temporary graves at Chem Chemal, each >flag-draped coffin bearing a number as it was lowered into the ground. > >The victims will be released to their families if DNA testing confirms any of >their identities, but there are many more bodies believed to be still buried >in the same location. > >"The thing about Mahari, it's a vast area and there are lots of mass graves >located in that area," said McCaskill. > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Post message: [email protected] Subscribe : [email protected] Unsubscribe : [email protected] List owner : [email protected] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/Yahoo! 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