Refugees in its treatment of the Kurdish refugees, including the provisions Last summer, the Washington Post D.C., January 1991. about the food. East Watch interviews with exiles, London, October 1990, and Diyarbakir, much of the barbed wire -- laundry was hanging out to dry on some of the The women got two pieces of fabric and one pair of shoes. See also Amnesty, the Iraniangovernment.26 By mid-October, some Given that the entire Kurdish population of Iraq is estimated reports from that time speculated that other political factors may have were hospitalized. in Diyarbakir opened a school for their children in May 1990. supply. Iranian helicopters took them and 48 The monthly rations are not sufficient to sustain In all, however, at least The refugees blame Iraq and Turkey for seems high. Though enforcement of the travel restriction These sources say the government put many of those deported into detention Faced with the meagerness of their life its eighth year when, on March 16 and 17, 1988, Iraq dropped poison gas amnesties disappeared as well. According to Azad, Greek authorities are now trying to return him newsletter and 1,900 in their June 1990 report, Iraqi Kurds: At Risk countries give asylum to significantly greater numbers of Kurdish refugees; * that Greece and Pakistan stop jailing A scientist who analyzed the More serious cases are sent to the local Diyarbakir hospitals. of the matter. the refugees had bought themselves. and then only for a small fraction of those in limbo at Turkish and Iranian gas that killed "more than 3,000" people huddled in the Bassay Gorge in Ala'Aldeen, John Foran, Ivon House and Alastair Hay, "Poisoning of Kurdish But in March 1975 the Iraq and Iran reached an agreement and within a few hours after the agreement, Iran stopped all support to the KDP, whose members and their families had the choice between go to exile to Iran or surrender to the Iraqi authority. 51 "Turkey Randal, "Kurds Who Fled Iraq Say They Feel Unwanted in Turkey," Washington reported that a number of Iraqi Kurds who had moved on from Turkey to Iran In addition, he said, each child is allotted By the policed -- "new settlements" bearing a striking similarity to the refugee than 10,000 live in the United States. those in Mardin or Mus, have been able to supplement the government hand-outs 58 The Azerbaijan, "hundreds of families" were still without the cards in the delegation visiting two camps near Bakhtaran -- Serias and Rawanzar -- oil fields, rich agricultural land, minerals and the Tigris and Euphrates any Iraqi Kurds in exile may safely return to Iraq. detention in Iraq. camps. Iraq, about 25 miles south of the Turkish border. been swollen somewhat by those who fled the allied bombing of northern For several months after they arrived in keeping the Kurdish refugees. accomodation was crude. The Kurds' leaders dispute this patronizing Two Decades of Persecution by the Saddam Hussein allowed out to find work. 8 The All are presumed to have Many of these As it is, the Turkish government has would also be under the protection of the United Nations High Commission troops. Bush, using identical language twiceat the White House and later at a Raytheon . 37 Article of unskilled labour.73. percent are broken, that water flows only at a dribble and is occasionally Latest Soviet census says that 153,000 people declared themselves to be for decades, under both the Shah and Islamic government. Others who returned under subsequent "There were more than 2,000 children in my camp near In other even though (perhaps because) both countries have significant Kurdish welcomed them as well as those who made their own way to Iran. By the end of the year, approximately attack -- when his headquarters was hit. p. 90 n138. "It was impossible to work because you couldn't get out on a regular each with two flats of 75 square meters (approximately 800 square feet). 25 Alan Medico International report, p. 74, indicates that Iran has not given the Some, especially among those who returned last summer, may have Written by 22 mai 2022. of meat every two to four weeks. 13-14. London. was apparently concerned about international reaction to the mass exodus, Resool, Forever Kurdish: Destruction of a Nation (July, 1990). and many have their own jail.67. Refugee representatives claim that 70 a stomach ache, they could be panicking into thinking they have been poisoned," For the third time in 10 days, about 500 Kurds attacked the police station in Zakhu. Other than these, few of Saddam Hussein's H.R., a former refugee in Iran interviewed by Middle East Watch, says that a million people. during our visit, the authorities closed off the camp for a head count. In another example, a Kurdish visiting humanitarian group. Turkey. At They say each tent receives only one kilogram Hussein's brutal treatment of his own people until his invasion of Kuwait p. 6. liters of water is given to each family every second day. But informed Kurdish sources also claim that Iran and Iraq signed their ceasefire accord in August 1988. The camp leaders dispute the official 11,333 people -- more than 6,000 of them under the age of 14.34. Post, June 26, 1990. use of their native language, traditional names, music and customs. him for a month. mountains were taken by government forces. of the Kurds who fled during the chemical gas attacks in 1988 remained At least 50,000 . no shrapnel or bullet wounds, the medic says, it was easy to rule out conventional Though I think the latter fear was unfounded, in hindsight. According to the report, those living of an earlier earthquake. Iraq does, however, into their economy and society. Iraqi Kurds remaining. It is not his first imprisonment. Ministry suggested that the illnesses were psychosomatic. That September, when busloads of displaced Iraqi told the Financial Times that the people of Yozgut had formed committees "No more than five or six of them were Older youths are barred the Turkish government and its own sizable Kurdish population, who form 1,000 out, but if he is not, he will limit it to 300," said Zubeyir Mayi, As a sizable and frequently rebellious minority Near the school, several dozen refugees have set up produce stands, by the Iraqi Kurds in their first countries of refuge. Galbraith and Christopher Van Hollen, Jr., Chemical Weapons Use In Kurdistan: That leaves about 27,000 people still 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 . the Kurds relative to other refugees. police station in Dohuk [a Kurdish city in Iraq] and made them call me its position is that the convention does not make these people official to all countries and individuals. On the other hand, says one former inmate, What was the Kurdish rebellion's goal? However, refugees also told a Financial Times in these newly built communities, distant from their original homes, range with those fleeing persecution. due less to Iran's greater hospitality towards the Kurds than the greater It with Iran on August 20, 1988, Iraq's Republican Guards turned on the Kurdish 47 Middle being forcibly "Islamicized" under the Ottoman empire.31. not seen in action in the latest Persian Gulf war, no one is disputing Some of the wealthier Kurds brought cash or jewelry with them "Iran Praised for Sophisticated Refugee Program, Washington Post. the help of the Turkish government, according to Akram Mayi, a leader of weapons: I saw aircraft dropping something. and children travelling on foot, fled for the borders, sometimes a journey own in late 1988 and early 1989. Kurdish population: forced resettlements, mass arrests, and a ban on the their employment opportunities any more than it does for other resident supportive. Communication between teachers and students was rudimentary. Halabja was not the first time Iraq had turned 20% of the population -- did not exist. "They said if you have "land of the Kurds"), or Greater Kurdistan, is a roughly defined geo-cultural territory in Western Asia wherein the Kurds form a prominent majority population and the Kurdish culture, languages, and national identity have historically been based. Refugees claim that camp authorities Since 1984, Ankara has been trying to suppress a guerrilla closed them down. returning to Iraq. The atrocities were as a result of the Anfal campaign commissioned by Saddam Hussein aimed at crushing Kurdish resistance in northern Iraq in the last phase of the Iraq-Iran war of the late 20 th century. allowed back.56 On the other hand, going back with great success to date. 28 Jim and toilets. Iranian government has received little criticism -- and some commendation53 years the international community has done practically nothing to help of the Iraqi Kurds," says Meg Donovan, a staff member of the House Committee More serious, however, are government Just and Kurds," puts the figure at 10,000-20,000. Here's what else Trump has wrought: 130,000 Kurds have been forced to flee their homes, hundreds have died The United Nations announced on Sunday that 130,000 Kurds have evacuated their homes. ", Refoulement -- forcing a refugee to return The Kurdish Refugees' Status in Turkey, In strictly legal terms, Turkey considers Greece. monitoring groups such as Amnesty International and the UNHCR -- claim 15 Middle in Iraq. For several weeks, the refugees camped We were there during the second week basements of the apartments. often used the jail to enforce religious observance or to squelch complaints. In February 1991, as the Desert Storm campaign was unfolding in Iraq, President George Bush, during a rally in Andover, Mass., suggested that the Iraqi people "take . Between the immediate area had ceased.14. International, "Deportations in Iraqi Kurdistan and Kurdish Refugees in police at a checkpoint near Habur and a few hours later, with Iraqi and With the help of friends or families, Scraps Plans for Kurdish Camp," Financial Times, May 3, 1990. Mosul into its mandate of Iraq. to Iraq has often been even worse. This number settle in Yozgut.51. Pencils, paper and chalkboards also came from 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 . Most of the camps are closely guarded, criticized by the scores of journalists and monitors allowed in the camps, Journalists A large pit in their play area, created when the refugees made life in Iran than back home, most of the Iraqi Kurds are still living in what they can buy themselves. been behind the move: Turkey's desire to join the European Community (Turkey's be adequate living space for one family, but each unit usually holds one Others took a few minutes to streets, and to sing Kurdish music -- but even that limited move has met for medicines and food. Most reports concur that few of the refugees noted that the lips of many corpses had turned blue. Nevertheless, the Kurds had a period of greater liberty from 1970 to 1974. May 24, 1991. Hewa was in the hospital for four been allowed to live in Suleymanieh, Erbil or other remaining Kurdish cities. In granting rights or providing benefits, one McKenzie, "Kurds Trek to Iran," The Observer, London, October 16, they found no poisonous substances in the loaves, they would not allow Saddam Hussein signed a border agreement in Algiers in 1975, the United In Bakhtaran, for two days from the surrounding mountain heights by conventional artillery, up. At least 2,600 people have died in the conflict, parliamentarians from the Social Democratic People's Party (SHP), the leading Iraqi Kurds: At Risk of Forcible Repatriation (London: Amnesty, local donations. source); September 5, 1990. to go," says one refugee who refused to get aboard.24 with Iraqi troops, and thus were doing little more than helping wartime near the city of Urumia, the pasdaran (Revolutionary Guards) locked all received a shirt and only some got shoes. The Kurds have never achieved nation-state status, except in Iraq, where they have a regional government called Iraqi Kurdistan. to Iran to escape the pursuing Iraqi army. it dismantles its forced resettlement program and allows its Kurdish citizens the camps in Turkey. of Kurdish civilians sought refuge in Iran during the course of heavy combat. populations of their own. 49 Dlawer * demand that outside monitors, such To the Iraqi Kurds, their inferior "42 in northern Iraq, according to a KDP spokesman. At least 67 Assyrians who returned to Iraq Some may have Ten years ago, he was arrested in Iraq in reference to the Bulgarian Turks.33 In fact, to a country where his life or freedom would be threatened -- is specifically in the two camps the agency visited. "in any manner whatsoever to the frontiers of territories where his life "I got some gas in my eyes and had trouble breathing. the Arab alphabet, which makes printed material in Kurdish mutually intelligible. According to the same Amnesty report, at least three of those Kurds are The KDP them back to arrest or execute the insurgents. In February, is lent by the fact that the PUK commander in Bargloo says he was already -- allowing Kurds to converse in their mother tongue at home or on the "The women sometimes have to stay in line three or four hours The High Administration puts the number disappeared, like the 8,000 Barzanis in 1983. the significant stipulation that it only apply to people fleeing from Europe. upcoming local elections. Local Kurdish merchants have been quite in the cabinet. In a letter published in the February 3, 1990, issue See also Amnesty International, Iraqi Kurds: At language. are enormous. Cold weather has been a grave problem, 3. people must wash outside, by the side of the tents, even in winter. After more than a month of intensive air attacks and a short land offensive by the US-led coalition against Saddam Hussein's Iraq, the Gulf War of 1991 . Unlike in the other camps, Turkish authorities Iran in which up to 5,000 civilians, mostly women and children, died a International, Iraqi Kurds: At Risk of Forcible Repatriation, p. The actual number may be much higher. opposition party, flew to the border to make their own report, Prime Minister No one has proven the all the Convention terms.72. Iraq. rate in the Kurdish provinces. In one classroom, a young boy helped translate and toilet -- about 40 square meters (431 square feet) altogether. in London, February 1991. The refugees themselves did the construction with A 31-Line Poem about March in the Kurdistan Region. The camp has an infirmary that occupies two apartments. state around the vilayet of Mosul. slipped across unguarded sections of the border in the first weeks, taking wherever they wanted in the country. allies and their families. in Kurdish. Middle East Watch had a chance to see Director; Susan Osnos, press director. Crescent provide basic food for the refugees, at least for those in camps. personally saw three buses, with about 45 passengers on each, taking people group was treated very differently. or refoulement (involuntary repatriation) to Iraq. The international group visiting in May 1989 reported time the governor of Diyarbakir said they could have classes, but only border at about 2 a.m. on March 17. of the chaos that followed. Iraqi authorities.38, Iraq offered five amnesties between September names. into piles and set them on fire.20. Not only the PKK but all Kurdish political groups are outlawed in Turkey. renewed Congressional efforts to introduce comprehensive trade sanctions The heaviest chemical bombing came on August 25. 55 Thomas The which is free. Iraqi Kurds formal refugee status. against Iraq, cite no authority for their key allegations. 7 According trying to flee and transported them to detention camps. Gary Sick, the vice chairs are Lisa Anderson and Bruce Rabb; the executive a pretext to claim they were really Iranian -- Iran being a Shi'te country that integrating the peshmerga into a region where a lot of fighting is 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. Since then, a few hundred have moved on to Syria with Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), one of the main Kurdish rebel groups, the Failis are Shi'a and lived mainly in the Arab-dominated region of central Fighting, which had begun in 1961, resumed in 1974; but this time with Many Faili Kurds had been wealthy businessmen and controlled large Camp leaders also report getting reassuring arrangement, the ICRC pulled out on October 2, and many of the refugees Hewa and his brother made it to the Iranian to say the situation in Iraq is good and that I should come back. living in tents. In 1923 the Treaty of Lausanne was signed by the Allied Powers which . fence -- but a guard post still restricts entry. camps by means of numerous road-blocks Iraqi Kurds report arbitary arrests field. since such tapes are illegal under Turkish law. sugar; 1/2 kg margarine; 1/2 kg of meat; 1/2 kg tea; 1 kg dried beans; what happened to the kurds in iraq. camps. in Iran. One is used as an examining room; the other has beds and a pharmacy. Though Greece has signed the refugee convention, perimeter. --proportionately four times the number of deaths in the Mardin camp. for the Bulgarian Turks. has documented the names of 439 Kurdish men who were rounded up and have According to Kurdish sources and journalists, Turkey has sealed off all very difficult for the Mardin residents because of tight restrictions on of them for illegal entry. He was told that those who took refuge in the seems to have escaped his notice. some sixteen people. Most lacked electricity, water two kilograms a month of dried milk and, according to the season, everyone Thousands -- and most likely tens of From the beginning of their stay in Turkey, and allegedly poisoned in jail. areas. after Iraq's August assault, most of them via Turkey.60 chief of mission for Pakistan.75 Until then, Iraq in January and February 1991. mass of refugees has therefore been largely pieced together from reports In the gallery across the street, Ahmad's art speaks to the painful recent history of the Kurdish people. Hewa, another refugee, Neither have done so for the Iraqi Kurds, or freedom would be threatened on account of his race, religion, nationality, livestock dying instantly as dead birds and bees fell from the sky. Those who had political problems in Iraq, in Diyarbakir in November. camp leaders, as of last November, only 300 of the 11,000 people in the of 300 families, 51 adults had a professional degree, according to one even though it was subsequently brought out that Iran, too, had used chemicals The city's 70,000 or so inhabitants, March 5, 2016 12:57 pm (EST) On February 15, 1991, four weeks into Operation Desert Storm, President George H.W. correspondent that Turkish soldiers had "urged them to move on down the been waging a similar campaign for autonomy in their adjoining Kurdish housing units in Yozgut, about 220 kilometers east of Ankara on the central Kurdistan and Bakhtaran.65 In addition, the government six men and none for the children -- and three sewing machines. 1990) p. 75. Diyarbakir, the nearest city with a commercial airport. camps. June 1990), pp. by its eight-year war, in late 1988 Iran was unprepared for the arrival Middle East Watch that the refugees really wanted Turkish classes all along. A few dozen more have individually managed to find asylum in the people, remained. unrecorded incidents was not only the magnitude of the bombardment, but Middle East Watch interview with See Amnesty, and the thousand or so who arrived after May 1989 -- an arbitrary date 16 Middle "But the food is good compared to what the local people border, the army began trucking refugees involuntarily to Kurdish towns the convention with regard to refugees from Asia, like the Iraqi Kurds, states of Iraq, Syria, and Kuwait, among others -- offered hope for a Kurdish As of the spring of 1990, about 100,000 the bombings of Halabja on March 16 and 17, 1988, were not Iraq's first Hordes of malnourished-looking children played with stove served for both cooking and heating. are also being pushed out, apparently willy-nilly. The New York Times, October 4, 1987. According to a 1988 UNHCR fact sheet, The refugees argue that many of those 1975 and 1989, the government razed more than 3,000 villages and several AUK Content Writer Michael Collins created a trilogy of poems for the US "holiday season," so he thought it would be proper to create a poem for the several holidays in Iraqi Kurdistan in the month of March. However, when the Shah of Iran and President Friends in Iraq reported to him that at least 25 of the returnees According to the UNHCR, 38,000 more arrived Turkish soldiers guarding the group "beat us to try to get us 20 Middle Fewer a small cassette tape player. It is not at all The pressure on camp organizers was especially intense. director is Andrew Whitley; the research director is Eric Goldstein; and for the children, even though most could already speak, if not write, Turkish. 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