SEMINAR: AL-ANFAL, HOLOCAUST AND ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
Kurdish Media, UK
Sept 24 2006
London (KurdishMedi.com) 24 September 2006: Dr Burhan Yasin, a
Kurdish intellect and historian, in his coming seminar comparers and
analyses the similarities and dissimilarities between three campaigns
of genocide during the 20th century of three distinct people, Kurds,
Jewish and Armenians. Their genocides are respectively known as the
al-Anfal campaign against Kurds by the former Iraqi Arab state, the
Holocaust of Jewish by Nazi Germany and the Armenian genocide by Turks.
The Jews of Europe were the main victims of the Holocaust in what the
Nazis called the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question" (die Endlosung
der Judenfrage) or "the cleaning" (die Reinigung). The commonly
used figure for the number of Jewish victims is six million, though
estimates by historians using, among other sources, records from the
Nazi regime itself, range from five million to seven million. Millions
of other ethnic groups also perished in the Holocaust in addition to
this figure.
The Armenian Genocide also known as the Armenian Holocaust or the
Armenian Massacre – refers to the forced mass evacuation and related
deaths of hundreds of thousands or over a million Armenians, during the
government of the Young Turks from 1915 to 1917 in the Ottoman Empire.
The al-Anfal Campaign was an anti-Kurdish campaign led by the Iraqi
regime of Saddam Hussein in the second half of 1980s. The campaign
takes its name from Surat Al-Anfal in the Qur’an, which was used
as a code name by the former Iraqi Baathist regime for a series of
military campaigns against the Kurdish civilian population of southern
Kurdistan. An estimated 182,000 people, mainly members of the entire
community such as a village or a tribe, were parished.
Their reamins were found in mass graves in deserts of southern Iraq
after ousting of Saddam Hussein’s regime. Some of the women and young
girls were sold to Egypt and Gulf Arab Sheiks.
Speaker: Dr Burhan Yasin
Organiser: The centre of Halabja against genocide and Anfalization
of the Kurds – CHAK
When: 30 September 2006 >>From 14:30 to 17:30
Where: Nørre Alle 7 2200 København N Denmark.
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