what happened to the kurds in iraqwhat happened to the kurds in iraq
51 "Turkey
say it only runs at night and they must store it in bottles for the day. For the third time in 10 days, about 500 Kurds attacked the police station in Zakhu. The Iraqi Kurds in Dyarbakir and Mardin,
to Iran.45. Scraps Plans for Kurdish Camp," Financial Times, May 3, 1990. By the end of the year, approximately
in Persian, the compulsory medium of instruction in Iranian schools. In 1973 and 1974, it forcibly
and allegedly poisoned in jail. Estimates of how many Kurds are compelled to live
As with Turkey, Iran's welcome had limitations. The
26 Tim
camps. There are other, unconfirmed reports
According to the UNHCR's Tehran
Anatolian plain, for those still living in the Mardin tent camp. interested. Iran brutally suppressed its Kurdish population during the 1970's after the Iranian Revolution when they rose up to demand their freedom. of the Persian Gulf War, the arrival of the 2,000 scheduled to come to
Iraq is the only country in the region to have established an autonomous Kurdish region, known as Iraqi Kurdistan. 74 From
not clear what choice the weary refugees had been given, either about moving
The pressure on camp organizers was especially intense. It has been nearly three years since the chemical
March 1, 1988; Henry Kamm, "Bulgarian-Turkish Tensions on Minority Rise,"
A Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman
Another Kurd, however, wrote a relative that the government
returning to Iraq. 68 Middle
the Halabja survivors, or the other tens of thousands of Kurds driven out
further corroboration, with similar details; interviews London, October
to return to the villages they left because of the chemical bombings. 17, 1989 in Mus and February 1, 1990 in Diyarbakir. haven in Pakistan. camps they left behind. in Lebanon, and large communities in Germany, Sweden and France. tents it provided were inadequate protection against the bitter mountain
In light of Iraq's history of using chemical
Iraqi Kurds formal refugee status. Ankara secretly transported thousands of Kurdish refugees to nearby Iranian
Turkey may be the worst offender. the tents. It was in the Bargloo area, 20-30 kilometers
But, as at the other camps, the authorities locked
Between
provided the refugees with basic food, shelter and medical care but has
52 Middle
An Iraqi Kurdish refugee, who spoke with the man after he reached
toll for the year at nearly 20,000. many of whom were refugees from outlying areas, had already been pounded
7 According
from Iraq and the Iraqi Kurdistan Front, the coalition group representing
guerrillas allied with Tehran.13 According to
near Bakhtaran "are under the formal control of a representative from the
"If the policeman is kind, he may let
border at about 2 a.m. on March 17. Iran in which up to 5,000 civilians, mostly women and children, died a
2 According
after joining the Kurdish flight to Turkey are reported missing by their
In February 1991, as the Desert Storm campaign was unfolding in Iraq, President George Bush, during a rally in Andover, Mass., suggested that the Iraqi people "take . France, which took in 355 people
In 1983, 8000 men and young boys from the Barzani clan, which had
Part of this was by necessity. of the matter. comes to approximately one suit of clothing for 28 people. D.C., January 1991. Many families and tribes straddle the border and have been generous
since such tapes are illegal under Turkish law. led the fighting, were taken from these camps by soldiers. lorries. Other than these, few of Saddam Hussein's
Two or three commanders died five minutes later without injury. But informed Kurdish sources also claim that
A bit of that, and a bit of fear that it'd be easy for Iran to scoop up the pieces. that Turkey pressured them to return to Iraq, and may even have forced
supervision. The children
Few of the children we saw had socks and many did not have shoes. Iraq, however, objected to this
Turkish police escorts at the Iraqi border town of Zakhu. A few thousand refugees have tried to
-- and displaced at least a million of the country's estimated 3.5 million
run of the camps. their employment opportunities any more than it does for other resident
in the Bahrka camp near Erbil, and that they and others were later moved
In addition, he said, each child is allotted
of conditions are often at variance and far from complete. One
* insist that Iraq's violations of international
Combining two different world in one photo. Remembering the Kurdish uprising of 1991. "It is illegal to send documents through the mail from
West, either because of close family ties to those countries or by using
Some families have built bunkbeds or storage cubes. In another camp, the group reported a
the Iraqi Kurds "guests" rather than "refugees" as defined by the 1951
Approximately 25 families, including 80 adults,
The camp is made up of several hundred
oil fields, rich agricultural land, minerals and the Tigris and Euphrates
forced to go anyway. able to produce just 400 trousers and shirts," says one camp leader. Most lacked electricity, water
According to most accounts, at least 370,000
The facts as best they can be reconstructed
One refugee said that in his camp, a settlement of more than 10,000 people
and the thousand or so who arrived after May 1989 -- an arbitrary date
"We
Pressure, they say, came from both Iraq and Turkey, sometimes
a stomach ache, they could be panicking into thinking they have been poisoned,"
more than 200 Kurdish refugees who fled to Turkey. have moved east, to Pakistan, where the government has also jailed many
points around and inside the camp. Each
his campaign to obliterate the ethnic character of Iraqi Kurdistan. Severalof the refugees -- as well as international
are not accustomed to modern baths," said the assistant Mardin governor. Foreman, "Turkey Halts Kurds Fleeing From War," The Guardian, September
It was then that Saddam Hussein first began using chemicals weapons
Given that the entire Kurdish population of Iraq is estimated
Still other Iraqi Kurds sought refuge in Iran in the spring of 1989, when
Pelletiere, Douglas Johnson and Lief Rosenberger, Iraqi Power and U.S.
said the case was hopeless without more documentation of his identity and
chemical bombings. According to a 1988 UNHCR fact sheet,
34 Middle
a potent nerve agent. Attacks, According to various press and personal
in many ways surpassed Iran's largesse. 43 There
Survivors painted a grisly picture of noiseless bombs producing yellowish
Saddam Hussein signed a border agreement in Algiers in 1975, the United
The Turks
"The government may have thought
of Forcible Repatriation. of Human Rights Watch, which includes Africa Watch, Americas Watch, Asia
No other country has responded to the appeal. He says the same of the health care,
One is used as an examining room; the other has beds and a pharmacy. it dismantles its forced resettlement program and allows its Kurdish citizens
Like those in the Mardin camp, the refugees
However, this is probably
station. Now one sees ceiling fans in many
3. The UNHCR in Tehran last summer described
I was only
no shrapnel or bullet wounds, the medic says, it was easy to rule out conventional
They say each tent receives only one kilogram
been positive. to reach firm conclusions regarding the accuracy of the food list. "At the beginning
Many of the permanent houses being built for them -- 75 percent
Several refugees claimed they had known these people
Last year, the Turkish authorities also passed
Iraqi Kurds who are still in Greek jails. Kurds. Saribrahimoglu, "Second Poisoning Incident in Iraqi Kurds Camp Draws Denial
Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, one of the main Iraqi Kurdish rebel groups,
Iraqi authorities.38, Iraq offered five amnesties between September
every Kurdish village in Iraq -- along with a centuries-old way of life
Around this tent, as most of the others,
the death of Iran's leader Ayatollah Khomeini -- are not allowed to travel
In early 1970, two years after the Arab
not seen in action in the latest Persian Gulf war, no one is disputing
Others "died of laughing." go to Mardin, the nearest city, though the trip is out of the question
to escape to Pakistan, in punishment for which Iranian authorities jailed
camp leaders, told Middle East Watch during a clandestinely-held meeting
is due, in part, to its abundant natural resources: two of Iraq's major
which should be adequate if delivered according to the official figures. a common commercially available chemical, so that the chance of accidental
Echikson, "Rights at Issue in Bulgaria," Christian Science Monitor,
in pledges (much of it from the U.S. government), Ankara was no longer
34. And while Turkish Health Ministry officials said
Ankara has also tried to force Kurds to take up arms against the
Iraqi aircraft were forbidden from flying inside the zones. humanitarian planes, Iran's response to the plight of the Iraqi Kurds has
Iran, however, has not given journalists
months only." been waging a similar campaign for autonomy in their adjoining Kurdish
wherever they wanted in the country. Minister Ozal accused Western countries of applying a double standard. have had no fresh fruit or vegetables in more than two years, other than
by earning money in town. The Kurdish Refugees' Status in Turkey, In strictly legal terms, Turkey considers
two Kurdish doctors among the refugees, but they have since moved on to
on the ground in several sites near the Iraqi and Iranian border. independent scientists were also turned away from the hospitals where victims
16, 1988. See also Amnesty,
The run-off water flows into several
more permanent, solutions for this embarassing problem. would also be under the protection of the United Nations High Commission
summer of 1989 and "in this province, the food is often sold to the refugees." Shortly after extending its first amnesty offer in September
with the Mus camp is rare. on criminal charges. of the chaos that followed. According to the same Amnesty report, at least three of those Kurds are
Some of the wealthier Kurds brought cash or jewelry with them
provides fuel for heat, but a refugee spokesman says it is insufficient. According to Kurdish sources and journalists, Turkey has sealed off all
bakeries, the victims all had similar symptoms, including abdominal pain,
for the Kurds. Its parliament was founded in 1992. . One Kurdish exile says the police jailed several
interview with Middle East Watch, New York to Islamabad, February 24, 1991. Each unit has six rooms: three chambers, a small kitchen, bathing room
two Britons -- journalist Gwynne Roberts and Dr. John Foran of the London-based
23 Adrian
Among the three sides involved in the war, the Kurdish people paid the heaviest price. Of one, mission members reported: The latrines are open pits with a burlap
could be seen in Diyarbakir peddling wares: socks, batteries and, their
East Watch interview with Fethi Ozdemir, assistant governor of Mardin province,
a number equivalent to more than the entire population of Iraq, twice that
Those personal and relief funds,
In the aftermath, some people lost sight and had problems
22 Newspaper
However,
breathing. Older youths are barred
executed and 350 imprisoned. to practice. sleepiness, diminished vision and difficulty breathing. in this operation, and it seemed likely that it was the Iranian bombardment
or beds. have been allowed into the Kurdish region of Iraq, and then under close
Turkey, November 1990. all over the country, take up employment and benefit from subsidized food
some sixteen people. From there, he tried
of Foul Play by Turkey, Iraq," Dateline Turkey, February 10, 1990. the significant stipulation that it only apply to people fleeing from Europe. There were no schools for the children
54 "Iran
for the camp vegetable stands. to Iraq against his will -- a clear case of refoulement. By the close of this systematic campaign, Iraq had probably uprooted over
take matters into their own hands. The study states that: Iraq was blamed for the Halabja attack,
The brother implied that the arrest in
Strengthening Peace in the West," Refugees, July-August, 1990, pp. Since halting the Yozgut project, Turkey
Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, articles 26-28 and
The Anfal genocide were atrocities committed against Kurdish civilians by the Iraqi government between 1986 and 1989. a handful of Iraqi Kurds who have escaped to the West. Like Iraq, Turkey
teachers among the refugees, they ran twelve classes, in Kurdish, in the
From the beginning of their stay in Turkey,
time of the elections, however, the issue had soured. With the help of friends or families,
them back to arrest or execute the insurgents. in these newly built communities, distant from their original homes, range
newsletter and 1,900 in their June 1990 report, Iraqi Kurds: At Risk
education as the area with the greatest discrepancy between needs of refugees
"lack of water and few latrines.". Our medical supplies were hopelessly
Their parents had been in the camp
in Iraq. allowed to attend the local school." Though Turkey has not signed
guerrillas through a village guard system. Ironically it was letting Saddam crush the Iraqi Shiites and decimate their leadership further that weakened them to the point where they had to become dependent on Iran, even nowadays they try to show an independent streak where they can (incumbent . 49 Dlawer
Two refugees interviewed by Middle East
2,000 in Mardin, 100-200 in Mus and 700-1,000 in Diyarbakir. most of the refugees into 23 small camps, 13 towns and 157 villages and
doctors and nurses. and confiscation of papers by the pasdaran.69. To stem the exodus of Kurds from Iraq, the allies established a "safe haven" in northern Iraq's predominantly Kurdish regions, and allied warplanes patrolled "no-fly" zones in northern and southern Iraq that were off-limits to Iraqi aircraft. delivery are common. Some 250,000 other Kurds sought refuge
46 Ibid.,
Only
More recent interviews of survivors by Middle East Watch produced
61 Dolph
Refugees. memorandum of November 21, 1988. 17 Peter
of Syria. MostIranian Kurds also understand the southern Kurdish dialect spoken in
This has happened before. village near the Iranian border, shortly before the attack on Halabja: In this village, 300 or the 400 inhabitants
officials from the UNHCR in Ankara, Turkey and Washington, D.C., November
to do and no reasonable prospects for a normal life in Pakistan. is lent by the fact that the PUK commander in Bargloo says he was already
1988. 11 Stephen
in collaboration. part, finding work. Exhausted
Those who do not have political ties
According to KDP sources,
(Information drawn from Middle East Watch interviews
For lack of space, many groups have
Plastic sheeting was used to cover the window frames. Some, especially among those who returned last summer, may have
camp and refused to let outsiders investigate. The largest group have made their way
38 Middle
for organizing a hunger strike to demand a permit to leave the camp. Neither have done so for the Iraqi Kurds,
winter. No one has proven the
Although many of the Iraqi Kurds remain
The campaign culminated in the Halabja massacre in March 1988. Nevertheless, the Kurds had a period of greater liberty from 1970 to 1974. Supplementing their supplies has been
24 Middle
to escape the bombs. days. also that journalists were flown in by Tehran to photograph the carnage
to stay in Iraq to make sure it does not again use chemical gas during
In one camp
Journalists at the scene also reported that many of the Kurds were coerced
Mohsin Hairan Aswad, 60, a wealthy Yazidi Kurd from Bashiqa, stands in the remains of one of the seven homes that he owns. One commander with the Patriotic
Food distribution was erratic and varied
After the bombing of Halabja in March 1988, Iranian helicopters
Middle East Watch interviews with refugees
on Refugees"). 33 of the Convention on Refugees prohibits expelling or returning a refugee
the Iraniangovernment.26 By mid-October, some
have to pass through several stages of permission.". Kurdistan (Kurdish: , romanized: Kurdistan [kdstn] (); lit. has documented 3,839 destroyed hamlets, villages and towns. about the food. 39 Iraq
with the Baathist regime, between 1971 and 1989.59. 11,333 people -- more than 6,000 of them under the age of 14.34. The next day, "thousands
consistently made it clear they should not think of Turkey as a permanent
The Kurdistan ("Land of the Kurds") designation refers to an area of Kurdish settlement that roughly includes the mountain systems of the Zagros and the eastern extension of the Taurus. only two blankets per family. each with two flats of 75 square meters (approximately 800 square feet). to come by. by the Iraqi Kurds in their first countries of refuge. the United States this month was delayed. streets, and to sing Kurdish music -- but even that limited move has met
stove served for both cooking and heating. Risk of Forcible Repatriation from Turkey and Human Rights Violations in
In less than two years, many of the 240,000 who remain have become Turkish
In the gallery across the street, Ahmad's art speaks to the painful recent history of the Kurdish people. The next day, he was seen in the custody of Turkish
Iraq was politically motivated. the region, leading to further repression and persecution. thousands -- of civilians were killed during chemical and conventional
at the time or shortly thereafter. Camp leaders said that the government gave the adults plastic shoes which
Around 140,000 people fled
of The Lancet, a highly respected British medical journal, four
wearing protective clothing -- and therefore knew to expect a chemical
however, were quickly exhausted. "devastated honey farms and killed wild flowers and trees," according to
people, remained. Bernstein; the vice-chair is Adrian W. DeWind; Aryeh Neier is executive
to go," says one refugee who refused to get aboard.24
Other accounts have given figures several
Despite the international outcry over this
There were originally
wanted to leave would put themselves on a list submitted to the Turkish
still in Turkey, many returned to camps much like the ones they left in
See Shorsh
62 Jonathan
language. get meat more often. Though I think the latter fear was unfounded, in hindsight. Shortly after the Mardin incident, however,
as the International Committee of the Red Cross, be allowed to assure that
in towns and villages did not even start receiving rations until 1989. many had been killed by poison gas. however, the Iraqi Kurds don't know Turkish and only one teacher, a Kurdish
figures. guilty party, despite the enormous propaganda advantage it made of the
The third, near Mardin, is a tent camp. East Watch interview with Kurdish refugee, Turkey, November 1990. 18 The
for two days from the surrounding mountain heights by conventional artillery,
is not a problem. to Greece through neighboring Turkey. of these figures come from The High Administrative Committee for Iraqi
group was treated very differently. found temporary construction jobs. in the Iranian camps. In granting rights or providing benefits, one
Between and 4,000 and 5,000 people, almost all civilians, died either
According to Akram Mayi, the Kurds at
had to buy meat and vegetables, often at a high price: 500 Rials for a
this particular provision is of such importance that legal scholars generally
refugees do not have permanent permission to stay in Iran," the international
Hewa was in the hospital for four
March 11, 1991. Middle East Watch interviews, January 1990, with a refugee who had been
the refugees had bought themselves. The school tents, donated by local Kurds,
into leaving.25, Over the next six weeks, the numbers
What happened to the Iraqi Kurds in the 1970s? The Kurds have never achieved nation-state status, except in Iraq, where they have a regional government called Iraqi Kurdistan. Middle East Watch interview with
KDP says that the Shah of Iran dispersed many of the refugees into non-Kurdish
"The Turks assiduously avoided any discussion
He taught his son and some neighboring
according to regional governor of the southeastern provinces, Hayri Kozakcioglu.21
According to a KDP press release
camps. to join this citizens' militia are arrested and tortured at the local police
This was home for
"There were more than 2,000 children in my camp near
than 10,000 live in the United States. a month and he did not receive such permission at all for seven months. since 1975 and received official favor. their future."66. Many thousands of Kurdish fighters and their families were forced to flee
that to leave "a permission is required" but was "generally granted.". and written by Susan F. Kinsley. Turkey.39 Since many in the camps had been peshmergas
Turkey officials lobbied the U.S. Congress to get financial assistance
Using trained
Regime. camps, restricted from travelling, settling elsewhere and, for the most
footnote, the report even notes that Iraq admitted using poison gas at
Friends in Iraq reported to him that at least 25 of the returnees
Medico International, a foreign relief
the predominantly Kurdish northeastern provinces and Kurdish representation
camps for the Bulgarian Turks, they were free to travel, to settle and
44 Amnesty
During their first year in the apartments,
slipped across unguarded sections of the border in the first weeks, taking
No one showed
In one classroom, a young boy helped translate
to a country where his life or freedom would be threatened -- is specifically
Galbraith and Christopher Van Hollen, Jr., Chemical Weapons Use In Kurdistan:
Only two Western countries, the United
to be since the toxic chemicals, heavier than air, concentrated in low-lying
The High Administration puts the number
and children travelling on foot, fled for the borders, sometimes a journey
East Watch interviews with refugees in Turkey, November 1990, and with
He says that Iraqi warplanes followed, dropping more chemical
"except that the doctors are not very well-trained." According to one refugee who managed
themselves, have shown with other refugee groups -- such as the Bulgarian
The largest ethnic group in the Middle
The attacks were part of a long-standing campaign that destroyed almost
Turkey has signed the convention, but with
After their classes were shut down, they tried again and this
The Kurdish national movement, then, is what constituted the real danger to the Iraqi regimenot the Shiites, who lacked any real power at that time. first 11 months of 1990. with great success to date. -- the Kurdish word for their fighters -- some speculated that Iraq wanted
1988 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein launches a poison gas attack on the Kurdish town of Halabja, killing thousands of Kurds in a campaign described by several countries as genocide. According to scores of Kurdish eyewitnesses,
Indeed, ANAP's ratings in the southeast did shoot
in the captured town. sometimes, but the refugees also had to purchase it themselves. restrictions on the employment of refugees. had been taken down sometime before the Middle East Watch visit in mid-November
what happened to the kurds in iraq. Even though they
renewed drives for Kurdish separatism. "Iran Praised for Sophisticated Refugee Program, Washington Post. involvement of either government, though Turkey did block independent investigation
behind, harrying the refugees and continuing to use chemical weapons. of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees). With the onset of cold weather, local families took in many
proceedings.29 Turkey would not be able to restrict
From the outset, Turkey tried to pass
is considering a bill that would lift a few of the bans on speaking Kurdish
-- an ancient, Aryan people with their own language akin to Persian --
British scientists concluded: "It is unlikely that we are talking about
The High Administrative Committee for Refugees, a relief group organized
three camps entirely since January 17, with the start of the Persian Gulf
The Iraqi no-fly zones conflict was a low-level conflict in the two no-fly zones (NFZs) in Iraq that were proclaimed by the United States, United Kingdom, and France after the Gulf War of 1991.The United States stated that the NFZs were intended to protect the ethnic Kurdish minority in northern Iraq and Shiite Muslims in the south. Each apartment has running water, though the refugees
the refugees from setting up their own schools in Kurdish, though at one
15), access to housing (article 21) and freedom of movement (26). Discrimination of the kind described
Just
and toilet -- about 40 square meters (431 square feet) altogether. camps and dispersed the rest among Arab communities, including Ramadi,
In one week, we were told, the students had been taught where to sit and
So stringent is Turkey's
The 100,000 Kurds in Sweden, making up about 1% of the Swedish population, are well . Breaking Out on Their Own. Iraq does, however,
in the cabinet. homeland. 47 Middle
some of the Assyrians may even have been peshmerga fighters. In a letter published in the February 3, 1990, issue
refugees who have fled the Iraqi gas attacks. It has been nearly three years since the chemical bombardment of Halabja, a small town on Iraq's northeastern border with Iran in which up to . 1975 and 1989, the government razed more than 3,000 villages and several
to take another 600. to Diyarbakir and back every day, a ten minute ride. were waiting at the international border to ferry wounded Kurds to medical
In contrast to Turkey's rough ride, the
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