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Remembering Anfal genocide

Anfal

Source: Supplied by Ahmad Ghafur

Hundreds of thousands of men, women and children were executed during a systematic attempt to exterminate the Kurdish population in Iraq in the Anfal operations in the late 1980s by the then Baath regime. Our correspondent Ahmed Ghafur reports from Erbil on Anfal remembrance day in Kurdistan Region.



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