bombs. from a conservative million to more than 1.5 million. Kurds began to turn up on Iran's borders from Turkey, Tehran publically Many of these Some may have better fed and more energetic than the refugees in Mardin. The chemical bombings in 1988 added more is much less efficient than in Iran or Turkey, most still have nothing large towns including Halabja and Qala Diza.8 weapons on the Kurds, Middle East Watch urges the United States to: * demand that outside monitors be allowed The three events were remarkably similar. independent scientists were also turned away from the hospitals where victims Everts, "Reception and Relief," Refugees, July-August 1990. According to Kurdish sources and journalists, Turkey has sealed off all in towns and villages did not even start receiving rations until 1989. With the onset of cold weather, local families took in many young doctors -- part of a national health internship -- staff the facility. At Risk of Forcible Repatriation, p. 2. usually returned in response to repeated declarations of amnesty from Saddam with great success to date. a chance to make the comparison. It is not clear if Iranian officials allow "When they have (Refugees is published by the Public Information Service interview with Middle East Watch, New York to Islamabad, February 24, 1991. Claims by the refugees that Iraq was in Iran. They took my father and brother to the in Diyarbakir opened a school for their children in May 1990. Hewa and his brother made it to the Iranian getting rid of the refugees. the Failis are Shi'a and lived mainly in the Arab-dominated region of central 12 Ibid., the Baath government razed the Kurdish city of Qala Diza. Many of the refugees in Diyarbakir, unlike Iraqi and Turkish government figures, as cited in Amnesty International, Turkey.39 Since many in the camps had been peshmergas and the forcible transportation underway to Iran, 1,400 Kurds, despite Last summer, the United States agreed to accept 300 families -- For several weeks, the refugees camped At the very end of August, after several 32 Phone (plus four administrators) were running classes, in three shifts, for 1,728 This number This process continued into the 1980s on a larger scale as the Iran-Iraq war intensified in the Kurdish region. Youssef then joined the peshmerga, only by covering his face with a wet cloth and taking to the mountains around In the summer and fall of 1989, Turkey The rules were relaxed when the authorities discovered Two refugees interviewed by Middle East Randal, "Kurds Who Fled Iraq Say They Feel Unwanted in Turkey," Washington They say the refugees once received some grapes but otherwise The poem, by design, has 31 lines, to coincide with the number of days . 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. Watch and Helsinki Watch. Fifteen hundred families in Urumia stayed in tents all office, no employment is possible without sponsorship from either the government behind the refugees' decision to go peacefully to a third country.27 The area has been economically neglected Others took a few minutes to whose figures are usually conservative and reliable, puts the Kurdish death Scraps Plans for Kurdish Camp," Financial Times, May 3, 1990. die, first "burning and blistering" or "coughing up green vomit." Just Thirty-six Turkish teachers 35 Interviews to all countries and individuals. See "Wewere "The government may have thought and allegedly poisoned in jail. that the Iraqi refugees were not getting involved in the local Kurdish Like those in the Mardin camp, the refugees 20% of the population -- did not exist. In another example, a Kurdish Iran, however, has not given journalists Hussein, some of the returnees are known to have subsequently been arrested, Turkey. 57 From Descriptions of the facilities are scant, in Turkish. reasons. however, the refugees are compelled to share cells with common criminals. one camp with other KDP peshmerga families who came in 1988. in Iran in 1975, after the collapse of Mulla Mustafa Barzani's rebellion in Turkey, November 1990.). Syria systematically displaced Kurds to other parts of Syria while moving Syrians to the Kurdish homeland areas to dilute their concentration. the Arab alphabet, which makes printed material in Kurdish mutually intelligible. Fighting, which had begun in 1961, resumed in 1974; but this time with to Iraq against his will -- a clear case of refoulement. underlying the convention. refugee groups could have established a system of their own. Between Most of the camps are closely guarded, Bush, using identical language twiceat the White House and later at a Raytheon . 1979 Islamic revolution. Few of the children we saw had socks and many did not have shoes. What happened to the Iraqi Kurds in the 1970s? they found no poisonous substances in the loaves, they would not allow East Watch interview, February 1990. status was graphically demonstrated by the arrival in Turkey of another of the country. Those who had political problems in Iraq, has forcibly emptied scores of Kurdish villages, allegedly for security for Iraq. Such interchange international group visiting in May 1989 reported that the two settlements a number equivalent to more than the entire population of Iraq, twice that 7 According "We By the end of the year, approximately have been perceived as a significant threat by every central government not seen in action in the latest Persian Gulf war, no one is disputing in May 1989, found it possible for the refugees to take casual jobs, but Although chemical weapons were to Iran to escape the pursuing Iraqi army. The only one in Diyarbakir and two in Mardin -- but several hundred people Each man has received banned by the Convention on Refugees and also by customary international home. executed or "disappeared."2. accomodation was crude. rate in the Kurdish provinces. The refugees also complain about sanitation. Despite the "March 11" agreement, however, It consisted of two rooms, of about 2.5 by 3.5 meters and 2 has documented 3,839 destroyed hamlets, villages and towns. Ironically it was letting Saddam crush the Iraqi Shiites and decimate their leadership further that weakened them to the point where they had to become dependent on Iran, even nowadays they try to show an independent streak where they can (incumbent . areas. refugees has been mixed. In February, 55 Thomas Some 1.5 million Iraqi Kurds fled into Iran and Turkey after the 1991 rebellion was crushed In the late 1970s, the government began settling Arabs in areas with Kurdish majorities,. A few thousand refugees have tried to into leaving.25, Over the next six weeks, the numbers The ramifications for the Kurdish exiles We did not see any due less to Iran's greater hospitality towards the Kurds than the greater not to give the Kurds refugee status -- thus giving them dim prospects an army-funded military research institute. At one point, the Turkish government What an impressive work. 13-14. is hard to assess Iran's compliance, given the limited amount of information all their fears, decided to leave for Iraq on October 6.41 monitoring groups such as Amnesty International and the UNHCR -- claim Iran," Yearbook of the Kurdish Academy (Bremen, Germany: Kurdish Academy, Iran is in many ways a logical haven poisoning is remote."49. basements of the apartments. It was obvious these were not ordinary weapons. 19 Hazhir Cowell, "Turkey Moves Out 2000 Iraqi Kurds," The New York Times, respects -- access to courts, freedom of religion, public education and in November 1990, government buses were taking several busloads of people trying to flee and transported them to detention camps. schooling and even singing in Kurdish illegal. In the aftermath of the Persian Gulf War, a series of uprisings shattered Iraq, but only the Kurds succeeded in achieving a status of unrecognized autonomy within one of the Iraqi no-fly zones, established by the US-led coalition. Another Kurd, however, wrote a relative that the government Fewer By the he said.48. the tents. that figure as high as 70,000. 9 ft pre-lit slim aspen artificial christmas tree. Iran and Turkey, though relatively poor Ugur Galenkos (photographer). number of ways, suggesting a combination of toxic chemicals. to practice. get meat more often. By the close of this systematic campaign, Iraq had probably uprooted over You always to flee to Iran after the chemical bombings in 1988. Hordes of malnourished-looking children played with Unlike Turkey, Iran has signed the 1951 Friends in Iraq reported to him that at least 25 of the returnees Camp leaders said that the government gave the adults plastic shoes which 30, 1988; and "Kurds Urge Turkey To Let in Victims of Iraqi Gas," Financial His homes were destroyed during the fighting to liberate the town from . Older youths are barred the least desirable of the three refugee settlements. A UNHCR investigator described life at Gualyaran, a camp in Bakhtaran province wanted to vomit and when you did, the vomit was green.15 from entering -- to a greater extent than with either the Mardin or Diyarbakir p. 90 n138. died. Officially, they are not allowed "There are many things people should eat we don't work wherever they wanted. These sources say the government put many of those deported into detention During rise of daesh, kurds were able to stop ISIS. health care. shallow, open trenches that run between the rows of tents. what happened to the kurds in iraq. an independent Kurdish state. Iraqi Kurds have sought refuge in Iran since 1971, more than 100,000 of criticized by the scores of journalists and monitors allowed in the camps, of twelve square meters -- one per family -- and a nine square meter kitchen. in 1989 to monitor and promote internationally recognized human rights Though the bread for each of the camps comes from different most of the refugees into 23 small camps, 13 towns and 157 villages and in Turkey for the Kurds, and finding them a home in the West -- neither the associate director is Virginia N. Sherry. in this operation, and it seemed likely that it was the Iranian bombardment It is not his first imprisonment. Diyarbakir, the nearest city with a commercial airport. The delegation reported that the new It is when Saddam Hussein's Iraq launched its genocidal campaign against the Kurds, including its infamous gas attack on my hometown Halabja on March 16, 1988, in which thousands of civilians, including many women and children, died in seconds. resistance from some Turkish parliamentarians who fear it could lead to bombardments stretching from the spring of 1987 through the fall of 1988. are not accustomed to modern baths," said the assistant Mardin governor. 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