"Never Again??" The Kurdish Genocide in Iraq
After the Holocaust occurred in Europe during the 1940s, the world promised that they would never again allow a case of genocide to go unnoticed for so long. Despite this firm statement, the Kurdish genocide in Iraq is an example of one of the four major genocides that took place during the second half of the twentieth century. The Kurdish genocide occurred in Iraq from 1987 to 1989. During this time, more than 100,000 Iraqi Kurdish civilians--most unarmed men, women, and children--were killed through mass executions, chemical attacks on cities, and mistreatment in jails and state-monitored living centers. In addition, over 2,000 Kurdish cities were demolished. Although there was substantial evidence that innocent Kurdish civilians were being targeted simply because they were Kurdish (thus genocide), the international community refused to believe it, sat back and let thousands upon thousands of people needlessly die.
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