However the Kurdish genocide started decades before the Anfal and has claimed countless fatalities and victims. Anfal was part of an extensive policy that was started in the 1960s on Saddam Hussein’s ascension to power to ethnic cleansing the Kurdish inhabitance from northern part of Iraq. This process named as “Arabization” spanned the years from the early 1960s to 1991 and succeeded in substantively driving Kurdish families out of their houses in the Kurdistan region to desert areas of Iraq or
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Kurdish Culture Anita Palomo Anthropology 101 Mr. Steven Sager January 21‚ 2013 Kurdish Culture The Kurdish people are an indigenous ethnic minority found in the country of Iraq‚ also in parts of Turkey‚ North West Iran and smaller areas of North East Syria and Armenia. Ethnically parallel to the Iranians‚ the Kurds in the past traditionally nomadic herders but are currently mostly seminomadic. The majority of Kurds are Sunni Muslims. The Kurds are the most populated ethnic group in the world that
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Hunter Epperson Mr. Penner Research Paper November 4th‚ 2013 Kurdish Genocide The Kurds are located in the Middle East within several countries: Turkey‚ Syria‚ Iraq and surrounding lands. The raid on the Kurdish people first started in the 7th century with the conquering of their land by the Arabs (Rutgers‚ 2013). From the 7th century until the late 13th century‚ their lands were occupied by several different groups. From the 13th century until World War 1‚ the Ottoman Empire was in control
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Summary Kurds are the largest stateless people in the world. The Kurdish ethnos was historically devided into four groups-Turkish‚ Iranian‚ Iraqi and Syrian. These groups lived within the territories of the respective four states. This situation makes the Kurdish case more complex. The usage Kurdish Question emerged as a concept to denote a problematic related to the Kurdish position on the new Middle East geopolitical arrangement after the First World War. The fall of the Ottoman Empire followed
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Iraqi Genocide of the Kurdish Population The genocide of the Kurdish population in the northern portion of Iraq by Saddam Hussein and the Ba ’ath Party reached its more intense period form 1987 until 1989. During this campaign‚ it is estimated that as many as 182‚000 Kurdish men‚ women‚ and children were killed by chemical weapon attacks‚ through mass executions‚ or because of horrible conditions and treatment in prison camps (Sinan‚ 2007). More then one third of the 3.5 million Kurds in northern
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Resolving the "Kurdish Problem" War is a difficult thing to understand. It will always be a part of human history‚ and yet we as humans never become numb to the fact that our fellow man may be killed by something that seems so old and outdated. There is a war being wagged in Iraq right now‚ people are dying‚ and yet there seems to be hope for some. The Kurdish people who mainly occupy the northern parts of Iraq have an opportunity now to prosper as a whole community‚ something that has not
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An Ethnology of the Kurdish People The Kurds are a Sunni Muslim people of Indo-European origin and speech who inhabit the mountainous region where the frontiers of Iraq‚ Iran‚ Russia‚ Syria and Turkey come together. Kurdish communities can also be found in Lebanon‚ Armenia‚ and Azerbaijan (Etheridge 2009). It is difficult to conclusively determine the exact number of Kurdish people in the world‚ however‚ it is estimated that 30-35 million live in various countries around the world (Houston 2009)
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The Kurdish political culture during Post-WWI did not prompt much Kurdish nationalism because the movement was neither powerful‚ nor compelling‚ but rather underdeveloped and new. During this time‚ the Kurds withstood “tribal fragmentation”‚ as well as “the absence of a hegemonic Kurdish dialect and the slow development of the written language due to the historical dominance of Arabic‚ Turkish‚ and Persian; and a relative detachment from direct modern Western influences”. Although there was uprisings
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PKK Violence and Kurdish Identity Abraham Alshawish His 482 Professor Forbes Firday‚ May‚ 15th‚ 2009 Introduction The question that is the missing piece of the puzzle for peace in the Middle East is asked by very few: Will the Kurds ever have a state of their own? When one looks at the Middle East post World one‚ after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire‚ one sees the formation of countries like Trans-Jordan‚ Saudi Arabia‚ Iraq‚ Kuwait‚ Syria‚ Lebanon‚ Palestine‚ Lebanon‚ and other
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Genocide As stated by the United Nations Genocide Convention‚ genocide is a coordinated plan to destroy‚ in whole or in part‚ a national‚ ethnic‚ racial‚ or religious group‚ by killing‚ causing serious bodily or mental harm‚ inflicting conditions designed to bring about its destruction‚ preventing births within the group ‚ or removing children from the group. The term did not exist until Raphael Lemkin devised the word in 1944. Therefore there was no legal mechanism for the international community
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