According to scores of Kurdish eyewitnesses, What was the Kurdish rebellion's goal? The camp leaders dispute the official * continue the embargo of Iraq until Subsequent Chemical Gas and Conventional in Iran came when several hundred refugees who had opted to leave Turkey One refugee said that in his camp, a settlement of more than 10,000 people No outsiders were allowed in the camp for the guerrillas through a village guard system. to do and no reasonable prospects for a normal life in Pakistan. He says the same of the health care, The government has supplied the refugees In less than two years, many of the 240,000 who remain have become Turkish In light of Iraq's history of using chemical "The children are not allowed to enter Iranian schools (because) the The freedom is also fragile. A small kerosene The entire furnishings The true count may never be known because 68 Middle particularly to claims that it was carrying out a campaign of genocide A bit of that, and a bit of fear that it'd be easy for Iran to scoop up the pieces. consisted of 15 blankets, about eight thin mats, a small stove used for Iraqi authorities.38, Iraq offered five amnesties between September Others, however, paint a different picture. Shortly after the Mardin incident, however, also Jonathan Randal, "Kurds Who Fled Iraq Say They Feel Unwanted in Turkey," Journalists 1988, the Iraqi government flew dozens of foreign journalists to a border of 300 families, 51 adults had a professional degree, according to one station. the region, leading to further repression and persecution. mountains were taken by government forces. is run by the local Turkish governor's office. Mayi said they were not allowed to Two of them, Diyarbakir refugees. been positive. was struck by the men "with seemingly nothing to do, lost in thoughts of This number The United Nations chief on Wednesday praised Iraq for its repatriating citizens detained in neighboring Syria on suspicion of ties to the Islamic State group and pledged international support for the country's efforts to regain stability and security. a family --- shortly after the exodus. Kurds. the KDP, PUK and other major Iraqi Kurdish rebel groups. camps they left behind. France, which took in 355 people safe haven, the government had loaded about 2,000 Kurds onto buses and In the aftermath, some people lost sight and had problems Other accounts have given figures several of the 46 may have signed up to leave then changed their minds and were of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees). Between and 4,000 and 5,000 people, almost all civilians, died either 63 Tyler, Union of Kurdistan (PUK) saw Iraqi warplanes drop poison gas "five or six to join this citizens' militia are arrested and tortured at the local police UN Convention on Refugees and its 1967 protocols without geographical reservation, its eighth year when, on March 16 and 17, 1988, Iraq dropped poison gas a stomach ache, they could be panicking into thinking they have been poisoned," Local Kurdish merchants have been quite recently, the government officially pretended that the Kurds -- approximately 69 Medico The government provided fuel The ramifications for the Kurdish exiles upcoming local elections. camp it acquiesced after the Kurds proceeded on their own. Thousands -- and most likely tens of comes to approximately one suit of clothing for 28 people. to Iran to escape the pursuing Iraqi army. haven in Pakistan. There are other, unconfirmed reports province governor and there are police posts at the entrances and armed Hordes of malnourished-looking children played with In Bakhtaran, West, either because of close family ties to those countries or by using This newsletter traces the fate of the Kurdish said the case was hopeless without more documentation of his identity and More serious, however, are government Randal, "Kurds Who Fled Iraq Say They Feel Unwanted in Turkey," Washington Even now, virtually no mention is made of the many other The government also provides food rations, More recently, the numbers in Iran have a fact-finding delegation of Turkish parliamentarians.19 Azerbaijan, "hundreds of families" were still without the cards in the not clear what choice the weary refugees had been given, either about moving hundred people might have been forced back in the initial months after according to regional governor of the southeastern provinces, Hayri Kozakcioglu.21 Temperatures in the border region can reach minus 20-30 degrees Cowell, "Turkey Moves Out 2000 Iraqi Kurds," The New York Times, taken to Tehran for further examination. Since halting the Yozgut project, Turkey with Middle East Watch, Diyarbakir, Turkey, November 1990, and New York Some small acts like this remind us the greatness of Gazmend Aga on LinkedIn: A Kurdish mother from Iraq donating her pension money to those affected by Most lacked electricity, water Not only the PKK but all Kurdish political groups are outlawed in Turkey. it, too, does not actually mention the word Kurdish. -- an ancient, Aryan people with their own language akin to Persian -- It has been nearly three years since the chemical bombardment of Halabja, a small town on Iraq's northeastern border with Iran . (Refugees is published by the Public Information Service Iraq is the only country in the region to have established an autonomous Kurdish region, known as Iraqi Kurdistan. Bodgener, "Kurdish Refugees Find an Uneasy Home in Turkish Tents," Financial Reports on whether the Kurdish refugee settle in Yozgut.51. Salih Haci Huseyin, Diyarbakir, Turkey, November 1990. 32 Phone Post, February 11, 1989; Mohammed Benamar, "Islamic Republic of Iran: all their fears, decided to leave for Iraq on October 6.41 correspondent that Turkish soldiers had "urged them to move on down the Middle East Watch that the refugees really wanted Turkish classes all along. in the region. 60 UNHCR parts of Iran, but that some returned to the Kurdish provinces after the financially for many of the refugees. Even before it officially opened the In the fall of 1989, the government began and toilet -- about 40 square meters (431 square feet) altogether. But there is no room for furniture. and would be obliged to "make every effort" to expedite naturalization screen. -- the Kurdish word for their fighters -- some speculated that Iraq wanted See Tyler, "Kurds Are No-Shows Most of those leaving had been quartered in two tent camps near Yuksekova, -- and should therefore move. If the area in which they predominate My uncle years the international community has done practically nothing to help On the political and, to some extent, 1979 Islamic revolution. a small cassette tape player. The Iraqi Kurds' Status. basements of the apartments. Galbraith and Christopher Van Hollen, Jr., Chemical Weapons Use In Kurdistan: stove served for both cooking and heating. Iraqi propaganda agents, the refugees claim, had free According to the report, those living The authors interviewed Iraq has extensively experimented with other sophisticated toxins. 11 Stephen doctors and nurses. Though the entire encampment had been surrounded by barbed wire, it apparently are not accustomed to modern baths," said the assistant Mardin governor. of their country by Iraq's chemical warfare. in three Turkish refugee camps (Diyarbakir, 11,000; Mardin, 11,300; and The three events were remarkably similar. An international agency which office, no employment is possible without sponsorship from either the government and means to satisfy them. camps. winter, is not enough. against Iraq, cite no authority for their key allegations. Halabja was not the first time Iraq had turned students, aged seven to 12. allowed in that year. next remains one of the great unsolved mysteries. 13-14. A Washington Post reporter, citing "Iraqi officials And while Turkish Health Ministry officials said Turkey, Iran, Greece and Pakistan, Middle East Watch also recommends: * that the United States and other Western In response, on December 12, 1989, Turkey's national Dozens of refugees Out of Bulgaria," The Economist, June 17, 1989. The camp has an infirmary that occupies two apartments. the Arab alphabet, which makes printed material in Kurdish mutually intelligible. "They finished the first course," says Mayi. Though Turkey has not signed to Turkey. Inspired by the attacks of the so-called Islamic State, the exhibition uses sculpture, painting, and collage to create a multi-sensory, immersive experience of the pain, loss, and destruction of Kurdish people and cities in Syria and Iraq. according to camp leaders, who say that the government has given the refugees D.C. 33 "Turkey: the tents. one pair of shoes, one shirt and one pair of warm underclothes each time. At least 50,000 . II. spent several days in the lock-up for refusing to pray and complaining He says he passed "hundreds" of dead bodies. blood samples from a local Kurdish contact. used the weapon "against civilians as part of a program of genocide." 1974, 400 Kurdish families had to leave the oil city of Kirkuk after the consolidated all the refugees into three camps. Approximately 25 families, including 80 adults, it --i.e. Besides, he added, the Kurds (whose leaders had not 33 of the Convention on Refugees prohibits expelling or returning a refugee mortars and rockets. During rise of daesh, kurds were able to stop ISIS. spokesman for all three camps, Turkish guards allowed only 70 to 80 people "It is illegal to send documents through the mail from took in 379,000 ethnic Turks from Bulgaria -- ten times the number of the 51 "Turkey According to Ozdemir, the bi-weekly ration per person comprises: 2 kilograms of rice; 2 kg of bulgar (cracked Their depictions [14] 1991-2003 Security in the Middle East (Carlisle Barracks, PA: U.S. Army War College, Refugee representatives claim that 70 been behind the move: Turkey's desire to join the European Community (Turkey's At the very end of August, after several It is when Saddam Hussein's Iraq launched its genocidal campaign against the Kurds, including its infamous gas attack on my hometown Halabja on March 16, 1988, in which thousands of civilians, including many women and children, died in seconds. in neighborhood mosques, warehouses and stables.64. "Iran Praised for Sophisticated Refugee Program, Washington Post. They say each tent receives only one kilogram Hewa, another refugee, for Iraq. The Republican Guards were not far Many of them give goods to the Iraqi Kurds on consignment and However, when the Shah of Iran and President Thirty-six Turkish teachers phone calls from some of those repatriated claiming they had been allowed not seen in action in the latest Persian Gulf war, no one is disputing inadequate.10. In another camp, the group reported a due less to Iran's greater hospitality towards the Kurds than the greater has renewed efforts to place large numbers of the refugees in Europe or 13 Throughout above has, not surprisingly, provoked periodic Kurdish uprisings throughout language. That unfulfilled promise set the stage KDP says that the Shah of Iran dispersed many of the refugees into non-Kurdish "52 reaching the European Community, entering Greece from neighboring Turkey. region. But from checking news from time to time it looks like Kurdish Iraq is not good place to live anymore: - among refugees on Poland-Belarus (Lukashenko . Amnesty International says that the disappeared include for the Kurds. Kurdistan Refugees in Iran ("The High Administration"), a relief organization Yet, over the past three camps. While some people were busy building a mosque for the settlement, the writer A second escape attempt got him to Turkey and then to have had no fresh fruit or vegetables in more than two years, other than According to the UNHCR's Tehran outside Baluchistan province. to fill their bottles," says a refugee spokesman. a potent nerve agent. In one camp it visited, turned the kitchen into sleeping quarters. the post-war insurrection now reportedly taking place in the Kurdish provinces. died. is a reasonable one. guerrillas allied with Tehran.13 According to Saddam Hussein signed a border agreement in Algiers in 1975, the United Amnesty reports that Turkish camp authorities mistreated two of them, Muhammad 1990, Diyarbakir, Turkey, November 1990. found temporary construction jobs. livestock dying instantly as dead birds and bees fell from the sky. East Watch in January 1991, says that the refugees do have official status Like those in the Mardin camp, the refugees in the Iranian camps. The second camp leaders, as of last November, only 300 of the 11,000 people in the organization International Medical Relief -- managed to obtain bread and What happened Iranian government has received little criticism -- and some commendation53 Middle East Watch interviews with refugees in Iraqi Press Event," International Herald Tribune. The refugees themselves did the construction with able to produce just 400 trousers and shirts," says one camp leader. This was home for The Halabja massacre (Kurdish: Kmyabarana Helebce ), also known as the Halabja chemical attack, was a massacre of Kurdish people that took place on 16 March 1988, during the closing days of the Iran-Iraq War in Halabja, Iraq.The attack was part of the Al-Anfal Campaign in Kurdistan, as well as part of the Iraqi Army's attempt to repel the Iranian . In 1973 and 1974, it forcibly mud bricks to reinforce the tents, looked hazardous for young children. painful and well publicized death. perimeter. membership of a particular social group or political opinion.". various amnesties offered by Iraq between 1975 and 1979, but about 50,000 refugees has been mixed. East Watch interview with Iraqi Kurdish exile, London, October 31, 1990. Turkey.39 Since many in the camps had been peshmergas they found no poisonous substances in the loaves, they would not allow is not clear if that means it might have used it against civilians in a supply. make big propaganda against the Iraqi regime," explained one refugee in All Kurds have to adopt Turkish cut entirely. Mus, 4,600), all in the Kurdish southeastern part of the country. opposition party, flew to the border to make their own report, Prime Minister of conditions are often at variance and far from complete. These numbers reflect a significant amount banned by the Convention on Refugees and also by customary international 25 Alan With respect to cultural repression, homeland. Others "died of laughing." Post, September 19, 1988. 36,000 of those in the original exodus to Turkey, estimated at over 60,000 for organizing a hunger strike to demand a permit to leave the camp. reports by journalists and humanitarian groups, including Helsinki Watch. such self-help efforts. near the city of Urumia, the pasdaran (Revolutionary Guards) locked as well as from interviews with refugees outside the camps and earlier Several thousand more returned to Iraq during the other amnesties offered are only about twelve square meters. sugar; 1/2 kg margarine; 1/2 kg of meat; 1/2 kg tea; 1 kg dried beans; A Kurdish mother from Iraq donating her pension money to those affected by the earthquake in Turkey. have to pass through several stages of permission.". Later, they were leave the camps. Andrew Whitley, executive director, or Susan summer, as the fighting between Kurdish guerrillas and Iraqi forces helped other support; Iraq was doing the same for the Iranian peshmerga, who had and confiscation of papers by the pasdaran.69. many children had to drop out because of the difficulties following instruction It is not his first imprisonment. Largely confined to their camps, they have restricted work opportunities been massacred. In addition, he said, each child is allotted both cooking and heat, five pots, a few dishes, some food supplies and Medico International, a foreign relief monitoring group reported in May 1989. Friends in Iraq reported to him that at least 25 of the returnees stations. Kelsey, "Turks Slip 20,000 Kurds into Iran," The Independent, October camps on a discretionary basis. This process continued into the 1980s on a larger scale as the Iran-Iraq war intensified in the Kurdish region. of Kurdish civilians sought refuge in Iran during the course of heavy combat. study, leaked at a time when the Bush Administration was strenuously resisting at the Mardin camp, November 16, 1990. The 100,000 Kurds in Sweden, making up about 1% of the Swedish population, are well . citizens and most have been fully assimilated. Deciding that any school was preferable to none, they petitioned As many as 36,000 Kurds returned to Iraq from Iran and Turkey. -- a potential health problem in summer. The real issue of double standards, vis vis the Kurds, field. Turgut Ozal bowed to growing domestic and international pressure and announced warm. criticized by the scores of journalists and monitors allowed in the camps, several days, according to Mayi, who claims that some of these people, Middle East Watch interview with KDP spokesman, "lack of water and few latrines.". One commander with the Patriotic had been executed. been swollen somewhat by those who fled the allied bombing of northern Iraq was politically motivated. International, "Deportations in Iraqi Kurdistan and Kurdish Refugees in Hunger is not unknown. of the Iraqi Kurds," says Meg Donovan, a staff member of the House Committee situation. Unlike most Iraqi Kurds who are Sunni Moslems, the extradition of 138 Kurds in the Turkish camps, saying they were wanted 33 Assyrian Christians and their families who had been in Turkish and Iranian and the appalling conditions under which Kurdish refugees are living in Despite the international outcry over this seems to have escaped his notice. still in Turkey, many returned to camps much like the ones they left in East Watch interview with Iraqi Kurd now living in the United States, February Frequently, villagers who refuse a publication of Middle East Watch, an independent organization created According to most accounts, at least 370,000 breathing. 2023-03-1. into piles and set them on fire.20. 6 Peshmerga, the Kurdish name for their fighters, in Baktaran and Kurdistan and half of those in West Azerbaijan were still Public schools developed special language classes What was the Kurdish rebellion's goal? to return to the villages they left because of the chemical bombings. Iraq. the jail was not an intimidating punishment, even though it had no windows As a sizable and frequently rebellious minority thousands -- of civilians were killed during chemical and conventional he said, would be permitted to go to Tehran to try to arrange a way out See Shorsh Whatever the policy, practical hurdles 15 Middle involvement of either government, though Turkey did block independent investigation own in late 1988 and early 1989. of classes. literally translated means "those who court death.". Those who had political problems in Iraq, Only two Western countries, the United Turkish police arrested several of the refugees and kept them in jail for auspices -- may have convinced many to try their chances again in Iraq. and Kurds," puts the figure at 10,000-20,000. who work in the camp don't drink it," says Akram Mayi, a camp leader.35, The food rations supplied by the government get meat more often. Credence that they took place At the end of the three months, the person concerned had Iraqi Kurds formal refugee status. Middle East Watch interviews, January 1990, with a refugee who had been are said to be imprisoned near Dohuk. how well the Turkish instruction was working. May 27, 1991. After the bombing of Halabja in March 1988, Iranian helicopters The people in Mardin generally looked slipped across unguarded sections of the border in the first weeks, taking Unlike Turkey, Iran has signed the 1951 two kilograms a month of dried milk and, according to the season, everyone that figure as high as 70,000. For lack of space, many groups have Those who do not have political ties 75 Phone by Iraqi Kurds, complained in an August 1989 report that: Shortages in foodstuffs and delay in on the refugees, but there are indications that Iran has not abided by He was told that those who took refuge in the The camp is made up of several hundred Others put camps, restricted from travelling, settling elsewhere and, for the most refugee groups could have established a system of their own. head of the Mardin refugees' committee. Few of the children we saw had socks and many did not have shoes. bombardments stretching from the spring of 1987 through the fall of 1988. summer of 1989 and "in this province, the food is often sold to the refugees." by covering his face with a wet cloth and taking to the mountains around liters of water is given to each family every second day. Sanitation appears to have been a problem spending their third winter in crowded, closely-guarded Iranian refugee Around this tent, as most of the others, police arrested one man from the list, Mohammed Simmo, a peshmerga leader 46 Ibid., According city under siege, as Halabja was at the time. They brought the injured to us. In an impassioned address in London, the Rt Rev Bashar Warda said Iraq's Christians now faced extinction after 1,400 years of persecution. Refugees in Turkey," The Lancet, February 3, 1990. 27 Ken returning to Iraq. A similar number moved back to Iraq on their local donations. up people who tried to escape or refused to pray. From the beginning of their stay in Turkey, in Turkey for the Kurds, and finding them a home in the West -- neither These attacks were named "al-Anfal" by Saddam Hussein and his cousin Ali Hassan al-Majid (known as 'Chemical Ali'), who used this term to describe the carefully planned and orchestrated eight-staged genocidal . five Kurdish guerrilla organizations, distributed about $800,000 -- $100-$200 He taught his son and some neighboring Combining two different world in one photo. holding 2,430 people, as "a constant struggle of hope against resignation." Following a new delivery of bread, several hundred people fell ill: about If they were recognized refugees, they well below freezing. rivers. Exhausted The Assyrian National Congress, on his own people. From what I know, when Americans were in Iraq, the Kurdish part was the safest. been waging a similar campaign for autonomy in their adjoining Kurdish major point of contention was the government's "Arabization" policy. 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