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The world was deaf and
blind
Directed by Luqman Karim
Most helpless
human being in a war time
are the children, but when a
country is occupied by other
countries ALL the people are
helpless. In this film, you
will see a little about what
really has happened in that
time in Halabja 1988. When
Iraqi government attacked
innocent people and killed
more than 5000 people in
less than a day and left ten
of thousands injured or
handicapped for life. I hope
you find this film very
informative. Because the
survivors still need medical
help.
The
world was deaf and blind.. part 1
The
world was deaf and blind.. part 2
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April 14: The Annual
Memorial of Anfal Genocide
Kurds are Victims of Iraq’s Post-Saddam Policy
14 April 2008 marks 20 years of the genocide of Anfal.
However, the repercussions of the Anfal genocide still
trouble the Kurdish people. Little has been done; many
important issues have been forgotten, and furthermore,
there are continued injustices, abuses, and offences
against the victims of genocide and.....
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Iran: Kurdish Teacher Tortured, Sentenced to
Death
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America Betrays the
Kurds - Again
By: Sabah Salih
Ever since the Bush administration surrendered its Iraq
policy to the losers of the State Department and Gates
and his crew took over the Pentagon, betrayal of the
Kurds has been in the offing......
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Iraq Gov't Criticizes Turkish
Incursion
BAGHDAD:
Iraq's
government criticized
Turkey's
ground incursion into northern Iraq targeting Kurdish
rebels, saying Saturday that military force won't solve
the problem. The country's Kurdish president warned
Turkey not to target civilians.....
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Kurdish PM: Turkish
aggression aims Kurdistan Region, not the PKK
London (KurdishMedia.com) 24 February 2008: The
Kurdistan Prime Minister stated that the Turkish aim is
to attack the Kurdistan Region’s infrastructure, and not
the PKK fighters. Nechirvan Barzani, Kurdistan’s Prime
Minister, was talking in a press conference in the
Kurdistan Parliament building, Arbil.....
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PKK: 47 Turkish soldiers killed :
London (KurdishMedia.com) 24 February
2008: The PKK has killed 47 Turkish soldiers and the
body of 15 of them are in their hands, according to a
PKK communiqué which was issued on Sunday......
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Update of the
Turkish incursion to southern Kurdistan
Slopi-Kurdistan
(KurdishMedia.com) 23 February 2008: KurdishMedia.com
clears some of the confusion surrounding the Turkish
incursion of southern Kurdistan. On Friday evening the
Turkish military have entered southern Kurdistan’s
territory some one or two kilometers. There is no PKK
fighters around these areas. However, the PKK has sent
some special forces to attack the Turkish army......
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Turkish military
forces cross Iraqi border resulting in heavy clashes
with the PKK, military casualties claimed
The Turkish military
has reportedly crossed the border into northern Iraq
yesterday morning and engaged PKK forces, in an
escalation of sustained Turkish cross-border military
operations, bombardments and air raids since October
last year.....
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KNK media release
regarding the Turkish incursion
The Turkish State
began an extensive aerial attack in Iraqi Kurdistan on
16th December 2007. The ensuing bombings resulted in the
destruction of many settlements and the
murder and
wounding of many civilians......
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Conference: The
international legal recognition of crimes of genocide
committed against the Kurds
Date:
16 March 2008
Organised by:
The Anfal and Halabja Working Group
Anfal and Halabja
Working Group (AHWG) cordially invite you to attend its
First International Conference on the legal recognition
of crimes of genocide committed against the Kurds. This
will be held at above venue, on the 16th March 2008.
This marks the 20th anniversary of the mass killing of
the Kurds in Halabja by the former Iraqi government in
1988......
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20 years after
Halabja: The series of mass-murders by poison gas
stretched over two years and killed 180,000 Iraqi Kurds
By Sissy
Danninger
It happened
during the first week of May in 1988. In the village of
Askar near the banks of the Lesser Zab River a child was
ailing. The grandparents decided to take the grandchild
with them and to go to see a doctor in the nearby town.
They left their village in the morning. Luckily, the
medical check did not show anything serious. But the
relief gave way to sheer horror when they returned home
in the late afternoon........
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Int'l Red Cross
urges safe haven for Iranian-Kurdish refugees
The
international Red Cross on Sunday asked that a safe
haven be found for the nearly 200 Iranian-Kurdish
refugees stranded in a desert camp between Jordan and
Iraq......
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Five Months Imprisonment For
Kurdish Petition
Publisher Mehdi
Tanrikulu has been sentenced to five months imprisonment
for writing a petititon in Kurdish and for speaking
Kurdish in court. He will
appeal against the sentence........
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Time for Kurdish
Rights
By Martin Zehr
A recent article in the Washington Post entitled “Time
for Kurdish Realism” by Michael O’Hanlon and Omer
Taspinar presents Kurdish autonomy and the inclusion of
the Kirkuk Referendum in the Iraqi Constitution as some
sort of sectarian move for power by the Kurdish nation
and its peoples.......
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Kurdish Party
Presents Defense Warns Of Civil War
By Gareth Jenkins
On February 11, the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party
(DPT) presented its initial defense in the case brought
before the Turkish Constitutional Court calling for its
closure. In its concluding arguments, the DPT warned
that, by regarding the Kurdish issue as one of terrorism
and using military means to try to suppress it, the
Turkish authorities were dragging the country toward a
civil war.......
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KHRP observes acquittal of Kurdish
publisher charged with disseminating separatist
propaganda
The Kurdish
Human Rights Project today welcomes the formal acquittal
of Ahmet Önal, the Kurdish publisher charged with the
dissemination of separatist propaganda, during
proceedings at Istanbul Heavy Criminal Court Number 11.......
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Turkish PM: Turkish
schools in Germany, no Kurdish school in Turkey
Society for Threatened
Peoples
The Turkish
Prime Minister, Recep Tayip Erdogan, is calling for
schools for Turkish migrants in Germany, but there is
not in Turkey one single Kurdish school for a people who
were living in the country one thousand years before the
settlement by Turks
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Understanding the
Process of
the Anfal Campaign
By Chalank Yahya
University College Maastricht, The Netherlands
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CHAK statement: We
condemn the conduct of security forces towards
blockade-breaking journalists
Translated by
Dr Kamal Mirawdeli
After another
patrol of brave journalists yesterday arrived at the
towering mountain of Qandil, three of whom were members
of CHAK, they returned today passing by the last
check-point of security forces of the region in Sangasar
area. A number of other journalists were waiting to
welcome them back. When the patrol of journalist arrived
at the checkpoint, they were attacked by the security
forces and a clash between them and the journalists
ensued. Five of them were arrested and one of them was
beaten......
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The judges who presided over
the Anfal genocide proceedings, including the president
of the Iraqi High Tribunal and the presiding judge of
Trial Chamber II, came to Vanderbilt Law School on Jan.
31 to participate in a panel discussion, which provides
analysis of the case. Many survivors of Anfal live in
the Nashville area......
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According to
the regional sources, Iran executed five people last
Wednesday; they were all accused of political activities.
Iran hanged 298 people in 2007, compared with 177
hangings in 2006. The authorities hanged 13 people on
1st January 2008......
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CHAK´s statement on
KRG´s genocide conference
in Hewler (Arbil)
Holding the conference
in this way, by the KRG and under its president, points
towards a biased and unprofessional conference in which
several topics related to Kurdish genocide would not be
touched; the papers would be limited to topics
influenced by the KRG’s policy. A conference that set
political limits on topics and especially on objective
criticism cannot make much of a contribution. This
conference should be held by a neutral academic
institute in Kurdistan without the political involvement
of the KRG, except for financial support.......
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Bombing the
villagers
Kerim
Yildiz
January 23, 2008, Guardian
The bombardments and air raids carried
out since mid-October, and most recently on January 11
by the Turkish air force, are only the most recent in a
series of coordinated attacks on civilian populations in
northern Iraq by both Turkey and Iran since last August.
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Kurdish protesters
press for release of detained leader
Cyprus Mail - By Stefanos Evripidou
THE INTERIOR Ministry was the scene of multiple
demonstrations yesterday as Iranian asylum seekers and
Kurdish protestors filled the street outside the main
gate with flags and banners. Around 100 Kurds marched
from Eleftheria Square to the Interior Ministry calling
for the release of their leader Mohammed Ali Ahmad who
was being detained in Block 10.......
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U.S. Calls on Iran
to Account For Kurdish Student's Death
January 23, 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Wednesday
joined a rights group in calling for a full
investigation into the death of a Kurdish law student in
Iran after he was detained in the western city of
Sanandaj.......
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Kurds Face
Crossroads In 2008
By: Dr. N. Hawramany
Switzerland
Dec 28, 2007
As we are approaching the end of year 2007 and looking
forwards to receive the new year 2008, the Kurds in
general and Iraqi Kurds in particular have very little
to celebrate about......
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Raids across the
border
December 22, 2007
Was there a deal between Turkey and America?
AS IF Iraq did not have enough problems of its own. On
December 16th Turkish aircraft bombed what they said
were Kurdish rebel positions deep inside northern Iraq.
It was one of the biggest cross-border air strikes in
recent years and was followed by an incursion by about
300 Turkish troops. They were said to be lightly armed,
and advanced only 3km (1.9 miles) into Iraq. But the two
actions mark a big escalation of the traditional
hostilities.......
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Kurdish lawmaker slams U.S. over
military assistance to Turkey
December 22, 2007
Mahmoud Othman criticized the U.S. policy of providing
military assisitance to Turkey.
A Kurdistan Alliance leader criticized on Thursday the
U.S. policy of providing military assistance to Turkish
troops in their bombing of Kurdistan 'northern Iraqi
regions', describing the cooperation as a violation of
Iraqi sovereignty.......
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DTP Vice President
Nurettin Demirtas arrested
The DTP Vice President Nurettin Demirtas was arrested
two days ago at the Ankara Airport when returning from
Europe. Demirtas is accused of having forged documents
in order to escape military service in Turkey. It is
expected that Demirtas will be transferred to a military
service base.........
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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN)
-- Iraq's Kurdish regional government on Monday
dispatched a team to survey the bombarded swath of
northern Iraq where Turkish jets pounded targets
identified as Kurdish separatist lairs and expressed
concern that civilians have been caught in the crossfire........
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Iranian Regime
Arrests Two Kurdish Women
TEHRAN, Dec 17, 2007 (AFP) - Iran has charged two
women's rights activists with taking part in "terrorist"
actions and belonging to a militant Kurdish separatist
group, an investigating judge said on Sunday.
Ronak Safarzadeh and Hana Abdi were "arrested for acting
against national security by taking part in attacks in
Sanandaj and for being members of the militant group
PJAK," the official IRNA agency quoted the judge as
saying........
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Turkish planes bomb
villages inside northern Iraq
SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq - Turkish planes bombed villages
inside northern Iraq on Sunday targeting Kurdish rebels
in at least the second such operation this month even as
Ankara held back from launching a ground assault........
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Between 20 and 30 students,
including those named above, are being detained without
charge mostly in
Tehran
Between 20 and 30 students, including those named above,
are being detained without
charge mostly in
Tehran
but also other cities, following scores of
demonstrations and mass student sit-ins linked to Iran's
national University Student Day, 7 December. They may be
prisoners of conscience, detained solely for exercising
their right to freedom of expression and association,
and it is feared that they could be tortured or
otherwise ill-treated in detention........
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PKK Calls for a
Democratic Solution to Kurdish issue
This week, PKK leaders have again responded to the calls
by several politicians who are requesting a political
solution to the decades-long conflict between PKK
guerillas and the Turkish military. The KONGRA-GEL
released an official declaration reiterating their
desire for negotiations with the Turkish government.......
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Kurdish Students
Arrested After Tehran Protest
Tehran, 11 Dec. (AKI) - Four Kurdish students, who
called for human rights for their ethnic group at a
university protest, have been arrested in Iran.
Mohammad Saleh Abuman, Farshad Doostipour, Javad
Alizadeh and Sohrab Karimi, spoke in support of human
rights for ethnic Kurds during a protest that drew 1500
young people at the University of Tehran on Sunday........
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The Terrorist State
Of Turkey Seeks Jail For 54 Kurdish Mayors
Reuters, Dec 12, 2007- Turkish state prosecutors
demanded jail sentences yesterday for 54 mayors in
southeastern Turkey for suggesting that jailed leader of
the outlawed Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK), Abdullah
Ocalan, may have been poisoned.........
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Terrorist Freed In
Germany Is Welcomed By Tehran
There once was a well-known restaurant in central Berlin
called Mykonos. Its Greek fare was said to be good, but
it is now remembered for an altogether different reason:
on the site of the former restaurant is a plaque -- to
which Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad personally
objected -- that lists three Iranian-Kurdish leaders who
were "murdered [here in 1992] by the then-rulers of
Iran. They died fighting for freedom and human rights........
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Millions of ethnic,
linguistic and religious minorities remain unrecognized
by the Turkish state, face discrimination and are now
increasingly under threat as a result of a growing wave
of violent nationalism, Minority Rights Group says in a
new report.......
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The Fourth International
Conference on the EU, Turkey and the Kurds - Monday 3rd
-Tuesday 4th December 2007, European Parliament,
Brussels
Pursuant to the presentation
of Conference papers and interventions made by delegates,
this Conference adopted the following declarations and
calls for action to be undertaken by relevant parties to
the conflict in the Kurdish Regions of Turkey.........
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