Author & Researcher: Adalat Omar
14 Apr, 2024
Genocide Decision in the Kurdistan Parliament -2008
No. (13) 2008
Decision No. (2)
The decision to declare the crimes committed against the Kurdish people in Iraq as genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes
According to paragraph (1) of Article (10) of the Presidency of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq Law No. (1) of 2005 as amended and with the support of the Kurdistan National Council of Iraq In meeting number (7) on 14/2008/4 exclusion
Decision No. (2) of
The decision to classify the crimes committed against the Kurdish people in Iraq as genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes
Resolution No. 2 of 2008 Resolution Declaring Compound Crimes against the Kurdish People in Iraq: Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes
Source Page Kurdistan Region
Type of legislation decision
Legislative Number
Date of enactment 02/06/2
Syrian Legislative Sari
Legislative Title Resolution No. (2) of 2008 Resolution Declaring Compound Crimes against the Kurdish People in Iraq: Genocide, Crimes against Humanity and War Crimes
Source Events Kurdistan | Number:87 | Date:17/06/2008 | Number of Pages: 6 | Page Number:2
I’m talking about the people
Decision
Number (13) 2008 year
The decision to declare cumulative crimes against the Kurdish people in Iraq
Crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes
Approval of the first paragraph of Article 10 of the Presidential Law of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq No. (1) of 2005 and building on the law of the National Assembly of Kurdistan of Iraq in the set of numbers (7) Retrieved on 14/4/2008 Released:
It is the right of the Kurds to live in dignity, peace and security and enjoy their national rights The first great nation and people before colonialism and occupation, some of the rights of the Kurdish people were recognized in accordance with the materials, (62 ,63, 64) of the General Zero Convention (1920), except that The international community, like the surviving states in World War I, was organized for economic interests and the distribution of influence, which was required by the Treaty of Lausanne (1923) and the fact that South Kurdistan (Mosul province) to Iraq as a whole (1925), and before Iraq in the nerve of the people as a whole (1932) Nerve of the nation, I am the only duty of Iraq to respect the human rights, culture and governance of the Kurds and the small minorities in the vicinity of Mosul, Warbil, Kirkuk and Sulaymaniyah The commitments remained and were transferred back to the UN Security Council by a resolution of the General Assembly in Al-Qasri’s deportation and humanitarian practices against the Kurdish people until the fulfillment of their obligations in the oppressive contracts of the Ba’athist regime can be used to expose the crimes The Human Rights Framework for the rights and freedoms of the people of the Kurdistan region from the Turkmen, Assyrians, Chaldeans and Armenians combines all the pillars of the crimes of mass murder and crimes against Humanity is watching and listening to the world without moving through the silence of the leader and leader of the international community, the order that leads to the establishment of the system in the absence of the Security Council For the sake of global public opinion and conscientious objection, this system is the most important thing for the people of Iraqi Kurdistan in April 1991 To reach the international borders of the neighboring country under the port of Mudfa’i and Jawi for civilization.
Peace and transmission and media photographs of the tens of thousands of Kurds who removed the order that led to the Security Council passing historic resolution No. 688 Loqf The Kurdish people and the Iraqi people, in general, gathered the way to the decision of the coalition states that won the Gulf War in 1991 by declaring areas in Kurdistan as safe areas, putting limits on the politics of the regime The outside dictatorship that gave you three contracts named racism and chauvinism and collected crimes of mass murder and crimes against humanity against the people of Kurdistan Picture description:-
Article 1
Thousands of Kurdish refugees migrated outside Iraq during the seventies and eighties of the last century after being issued with enough legal documents to prove their Iraqi citizenship More than 15,000 of them left their families and went to an unknown destination.
Article 2
Most of the secondary markets of the Barzanis were isolated during the general 1983 to an unknown location and remained open until after the fall of the dictatorial regime The giant sculpture is one of them in a mass grave visit in a different part of Iraq.
Article 3
General use of chemical weapons in 1987-1988, against civilians in most of the same villages and locations in Iraqi Kurdistan, as well as areas of the Balisan Valley, Malkan, Badinan, and Termian.
Article 4
More than 182,000 civilians are still alive in the southern mass cemetery during the military campaign العراق.
Article 5
The city of Halabja was destroyed in 1988 with chemical weapons that killed more than fifty thousand martyrs and hundreds of thousands of them with chronic diseases and birth defects in the city المذکورة Suffering from natural diseases and disorders.
Article 6
Declare most areas of Iraqi Kurdistan as forbidden military areas and prohibit residence and residence or movement from there and thousands of citizens who refuse to refuse military objectives Legislation for murder and execution of the occupation branch on them alive after trial.
Article 7
Execution of all those who survived the chemical weapons and fled to our government areas or hospitals for treatment.
Article 8
Fire and smoke and destruction of more than a quarter of a thousand villages and castles with their churches, mosques, signs, displacement of their property and their property
Palatial residential complexes allow them to change their residential locations.
Article 9
Changing the ethnic identity of the citizens of Kurdistan-Iraq according to their ethnic categories (Kurdish, Turkmen, Chaldean, Assyrian, and Armenian).
Article 10
Changing the demographic reality in Iraqi Kurdistan by repatriating its indigenous citizens based on excuses and lawful non-disguised.
Article 11
Government administrations in Kurdistan have been in operation since 1991, and government services have been closed there.
Article12
Impose an economic blockade on Kurdistan and restrict settlement movement from there.
The case was registered by the decision of the Iraqi Criminal Court (1/c2/2006) on 24/6/2 10 Since 2005, this people has opposed genocide in the following resolutions:
1: The crime of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes against the Kurdish national children المتهمين:
A. Ali Hassan al-Majid.
B. Sultan Hashim Ahmed.
C. Hussein Rashid al-Tikriti.
D. Dr. Saber Abdulaziz Al-Duri.
E. Farhan Mutlaq al-Jabouri.
And the sentence upon them is the death penalty.
2- The sentence of dismissal of the accused Tahir Tawfiq Al-Ani for lack of sufficient legal evidence.
3- Opening an independent case against (423) accused. The last details of the investigation and trial began with accused Wafiq Ajil al-Samaritan and ended with accused Mohammed Saeed Ahmed al-Harooni.
4- Protecting the plaintiffs’ rights by referring them to the specialized civil courts for compensation for the damage caused to them.
On 7/24/2007, the Appeals Chamber of the Iraqi Supreme Criminal Court confirmed the conviction and sentence decisions issued in the case, and the decision became final.
On the part of the National Assembly of Kurdistan-Iraq and by its constitutional, legal, and political responsibilities, it necessarily requires cooperation with the policies initiated by the governments The dictatorship that meets the Kurdish people and the crimes that are committed rightly deserve the rights and the realization of justice And to ensure there is no repetition of the crimes mentioned and a personal record in the memory of the past, says Miley:
First: the Anfal operations and the use of combined chemical weapons against the Kurdish people are crimes of genocide (14/4) Every day remember the tragic Anfal operations against the people of Kurdistan – Iraq.
Second: Request of the Federal Government of Iraq to implement its obligations related to the decision of the Iraqi Criminal Court (1/C2/2006) on 24/2 6/2007 and the resolution of the Iraqi House of Representatives adopted in the extensive and final addiction meeting on (14/4/2008) not to expose the Kurdish people in Iraqi Kurdistan to killing and murder Congregational worship is congregational by all comparisons.
Third: The demands of the Federal Government on the subject and its participation through diplomatic means in international forums, especially the United Nations and other international organizations According to the rights of the European Union, the European Parliament, the Islamic Community, the Arab League and the Union of International Parliaments, Definition of Crimes of Anfal and the Use of Chemical Weapons in Crimes Against Humanity and Mass Destruction Referenced by the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 260,000 (D-3) Dated 10/December/1948 and translation of the decision of the Criminal Court and the decision of the Iraqi House of Representatives (dated 14/4/2008) to the languages of the world of life and its distribution International and international systems are enough.
Fourth: Appealing to the Iraqi Council of Representatives and the federal government to expedite the enactment of a law to compensate those affected by the genocide, especially the living victims’ families, and to compensate individuals and areas affected by those crimes and to contribute effectively to their reconstruction and revival and to allocate a special budget for them.
Fifth: Demanding the federal government and the regional government to take the necessary steps to file lawsuits against the countries, companies, entities, and individuals who equipped and supplied the defunct government with internationally banned weapons, their manufacturing materials, tools, and accessories, or mediated or facilitated their acquisition, and to prosecute them legally in implementation of the decision of the Iraqi Supreme Criminal Court and to demand compensation for those affected by them.
Sixth: The policy of genocide (genocide) that affected large areas of the Kurdistan Region and its various ethnic and religious components of the Fayli Kurds and the Yazidi Kurds, where more than 4,000 Yazidis were killed, as well as the Turkmen, Chaldeans, Assyrians, and Armenians, and what they were subjected to in terms of displacement and assimilation of nationality, including demographic change in their regions.
Therefore, the National Assembly of Kurdistan-Iraq condemns the Iraqi government and the meaningful parties for the effects of your policies on us in such a hasty implementation of article 140 of the Iraqi Constitution restores the fundamental rights of the Kurdish refugees, and restores their rights to them and complains about the damage caused to them The naturalness of the past and the recovery of their rights.
Seven: The Kurdistan Regional Government requests that the areas covered by the floods be given priority in providing services and establishing infrastructure there.
Eighth: The regional government must establish a general and unified center for documentation, studies, and research on the crimes of genocide and crimes against humanity committed against the people of Kurdistan, and to educate and remind the people of Kurdistan of those crimes and the calamities that befell this people, and to create communication between this generation and future generations, and to develop educational materials in school curricula in this regard.
Ninth: Organizing and documenting the search for mass graves and working to transfer the remains of the victims to their areas and bury them in special cemeteries to be historical landmarks indicating the extent of this people’s interest in honoring and immortalizing its martyrs.
The Council affirms that the crimes committed above will not be erased by time because they are crimes of genocide, which are serious crimes according to international law and condemned by the civilized world. Therefore, the National Council of Kurdistan – Iraq affirms and commends the decision of the Iraqi Council of Representatives taken in its regular session numbered 9, dated (14/4/2008), which stated the following: (In light of what the Iraqi Constitution indicated in its introduction that this Constitution is an interrogation and an echo of the suffering of the Iraqi people, including the suffering of national oppression in the massacres of Halabja, Barzan, Anfal, and the Faylee Kurds, and in confirmation of the decision of the Iraqi Special Criminal Court regarding the classification of the facts that accompanied the infamous Anfal operations as genocide, the Iraqi Council of Representatives decides that what the Kurdish people in Iraqi Kurdistan were subjected to in terms of a policy of oppression, persecution, and crimes, the images and facts of which this decision reviewed, are crimes of genocide and crimes against humanity by all standards). Tenth: The Council of Ministers and relevant authorities shall work to implement what is stated in this decision.
This Decision was issued on 2 June 2008 AD.
For more information, the decision is available in Kurdish pdf