Genocide swept across the region of Kurdistan. In the 1980s, the Anfal operation in Iraq was sent on a mission to exterminate the Kurds. This led to around 100,000 Kurds were reported to have been murdered. The Anfal operation led to countless Kurds being murdered in so many ways. This genocide came into the media in the 1980s, but the genocide has been occurring ever since the 1960s when women, children, and men began to disappear. This stands out because many children who went through this genocide are now adults and remember the horrors. I have a family friend who had to flee the region with her family as a teenager, and she remembers the refugee camps they had to stay in along the way. And how she witnessed her father fall into insanity due to the atrocities that occurred. This is why it stands out to me because this is exactly what the Jewish people went through while the Nazis were on a mission to exterminate them. The Kurds now use the word Anful to remember the horrible events that happened and the people that were lost during these attacks and in the countless concentration camps many of them were sent to.

Anfal Campaign and Kurdish Genocide – Department of Information Technology, KRG, us.gov.krd/en/issues/anfal-campaign-and-kurdish-genocide/. Accessed 27 Nov. 2023.