The Office of the First Lady of Iraq announces a press conference to provide updates on the discovery and ongoing efforts at a mass grave site in the Tel al-Sheikhiya desert in Samawa Province.
This mass grave, uncovered after a week of intensive work, contains human remains believed to be Kurdish women and children, identified by their colorful Kurdish clothing. This heartbreaking discovery sheds further light on the atrocities committed against the Kurdish community during Iraq’s recent history. From the 1980s, Saddam Hussein began a brutal crackdown on minorities and opposition groups, culminating in the Anfal campaign.
The Anfal campaign, orchestrated by Saddam Hussein’s regime in 1988, was a systematic act of genocide targeting the Kurdish population in Iraq. Hundreds of thousands of Kurds, including women and children, were forcibly removed from their homes, brutally murdered, and buried in mass graves. Entire villages were destroyed,leaving a legacy of unimaginable suffering and loss that continues to impact survivors and families to this day...[1]

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