Iraqi genocide documents

[kurds at gn.apc.org]

The following official Iraqi government documents leave no room
for doubt that Saddam Hussein's regime was operating a policy of
persecution, deportation and GENOCIDE in Kurdistan.



#1.  From: Ali Hassan Majid, Military Governor of Iraqi Kurdistan


        The letter of the first legion SF/1725 dated 21/6
        notified by a letter of positions FL 1 SF/4098
        dated 22/6/1987 begins as follows:  (A letter from
        the leadership of the Northern Organisation's office
        SF/4008 dated 20/6(:)

In view of the end of the officially expired period for
collecting the Security-Prohibited villages which will expire on
21/6, we decided to implement the following from 22/6 onwards:

1.   All Security-Prohibited villages shall be considered to be
places (bases) of the subversive agents of Iran and successors-
of-treason and the like of Iraqi traitors.* 
          [*ed: They mean Kurdish partisans and their families]

2.   Human and animal existence in these areas shall absolutely
be prohibited and (the areas) shall be considered as operation
zones in which shooting shall not be restricted by any
instructions unless issued from our base.

3.   Travelling to and from the areas, and farming or
agricultural, animal or industrial exploitation, in the areas
shall be completely forbidden and all concerned authorities are
responsible to follow up this subject seriously and each within
their speciality.

4.   Your commands shall prepare special attacks from time to
time using artillery, helicopters and jets against as many of
those possible existing in these prohibited areas during all
times, days and nights.* 
            [*Ed: they did, using chemical weapons]

5.   Anyone found within those prohibited areas shall be detained
and interrogated by the Security Organs.  Those whose ages lie
between 15 and 70 years shall be executed after benefiting from
their information.

6.   The concerned security organs shall interrogate those who
surrender themselves for a maximum period of 3 days and when
necessary 10 days and if the interrogation required more than
this time they need to get our sanction either by phone or cable.

We hope the above shall be executed by each within their
speciality.  Over.)

Signed: Ali Hassan Majid, Military Governor


	[Ed: The 'Security-Prohibited' order was applied
	to large tracts of Kurdistan and hundreds of
	Kurdish villages populated by innocent civilians
	suddenly found themselves in a killing zone. 
	Please bear in the mind that this was Phase TWO
	of the operation!  The scope of the tragedy that
	was unrolling across Kurdistan was defined in some
	detail in the following communique.]





#2.    From: Ali Moashna Kadhum, Secretary, National Defence
       Battalions Committee

ARAB BA'ATH SOCIALIST PARTY
COMMAND OF ZAKHO BRANCH
NATIONAL DEFENCE BATTALIONS COMMITTEE

Strictly confidential and Personal
Subject: Directive


Comradely greetings.

[I refer to] the letter of National Defence Battalions Committee
S/Sh/1175 dated 9th June 1987, which refers to the letter of the
Bureau of the Organisation of the North (marked Strictly
confidential and Personal) 28/2650 dated 3rd June 1987 which
include the following:

1.  Human presence, the delivery of food or machinery are totally
forbidden in the villages included in the second stage of village
collectivisation.  Those [villagers] who wish to return should be
allowed to do so; but their relatives are not allowed to contact
them without prior information of the security authorities.

2.  Human presence is totally banned in those areas in which the
forbidden villages of stage one are situated.  Presence is
equally forbidden, after 21st June 1987, in the case of those
villages included in stage two.

3.  No activity is permitted after the conclusion of the harvest
season, which must end by 15th July 1987.  No agricultural
activity is allowed thenceforth for the following summer and
winter seasons.

4.  Grazing is also taboo in these areas.

5.  The military force within any of the districts in question
are instructed to kill any human or animal found.  These areas
will be designated as absolutely no-go areas.

6.  Those [villagers] included in the deportation plan are to be
informed about resettlement.  They will therefore be held
responsible for any failure towards fulfilling these orders.

[This letter has been prepared for your information to do
accordingly: every individual according to his speciality.]

   [Signed]

   Comrade Ali Moashna Kadhum
   Secretary of the Committee


	[Ed: Reading these documents, are you not irrestibly
	reminded of Nazi plans for the Jews: deportation, 
	resettlement, mass murder by gassing.  If Hitler
	had been able to gas the Jews simply by bombing
	and shelling with cyanide and nerve gas, would
	he have bothered to build the ovens of Belzec and
	Auschwitz?  After the Holocaust the Jews gained
	their own country.  Who in the West remembers, let
	alone cares about, the Kurdish dead?]


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[The first response to this topic is a list of Kurdish villages
destroyed by the Iraqis in the period PRECEDING these documents.

To this we have appended the list of the dead (those whose names
we know) from just TWO villages on that list.

We are not asking you to read the whole list.  Just scroll
through it and you will get some idea of the extent of the
disaster suffered by our people.]