Al_Haddad on the dire (32) anniversary of the Anfal massacres against the Kurds: The people of Kurdistan made great sacrifices for their freedom and they still demand their constitutional rights.        

On the occasion of the 32th anniversary of the Anfal campaigns and the genocide against the Kurds, the Deputy Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament, Dr. Bashir Khalil Al-Haddad, recall today Tuesday,2020/4/14 This tragedy and human catastrophe that shook history and translated its most dangerous pages from mass graves and sowed spite, racism, hatred and criminality in the most horrific form against the people of Kurdistan by killing more than 182 thousand citizens in genocide, forced displacement and the destruction of villages and districts in Kurdistan.

Al-Haddad, and on this dire occasion he stated: “The people of Kurdistan have made great sacrifices for the sake of their freedom and are still demanding their constitutional rights and consolidating them with legislation, laws in force and binding decisions in application.” His Eminence called on the federal government to initiate and take serious steps to compensate the families of the Anfal martyrs and all the martyrs of Iraq, and to lift the damage from them and remove the traces of the abhorrent past of the defunct ba’ath party and alleviate their suffering that lasted for decades, through the fair application of transitional justice decisions and laws.

Media office of the Deputy Speaker of the Iraqi Council of Representatives
April 14, 2020