SULAYMANIYAH, Jan. 11 (AKNews) ? Iraqi human rights officials are expected to introduce the crimes and atrocities committed by the Baath Party government against the Kurds and Shiites in Iraq to a London conference.
The three-day conference will try to make the crimes more widely known and understood. The atrocities include crimes against humanity, acts of genocide, mass killings and the use of chemical bombs against the Shiites and Kurds. The Baath regime that ruled Iraq from 1963 up to 2003 when the U.S.-led coalition forces toppled Saddam Hussein.
The conference will show documentaries and include a photography exhibition in addition to displaying documents that prove the crimes, Ashwaq Jaf, a member of the parliamentary Human Rights Committee told AKnews.
Iraqi forces under Saddam Hussein killed more than 5,000 Kurds in a chemical attack on the Kurdish city of Halabja in 1988. From the early 1980s towards the end of that decade, Iraqi forces rounded up and killed more than 182,000 Kurds including men, women and children according to Kurdish officials. The victims were buried in mass graves in southern and central Iraq. The military operation was codenamed as Anfal.
Many of these mass graves have already been found and exhumed with remains of thousands of Kurds discovered.
Iraqi forces also killed thousands of Shiites in the 1991 uprisings as they cracked down on revolutionaries with an iron fist in southern Iraq. Religious persecution continued practice throughout the period of the Baath rule.
By DIlshad Saifaddin
RY/JS/AKnews
Source: http://www.aknews.com/en/aknews/3/283627/
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