Crimes of Saddam: selling Kurdish women

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Crimes of Saddam: selling Kurdish women

The Kurdish writer Chiman Salih received a document from Ms Adalat Umer Salih, Head of the Anfal Center after the fall of Saddam Hussein. It was meant for publication in the press.

The document was a letter from Kirkuk’s security office to Saddam’s General Security office in Baghdad (Amin), about 18 Kurdish women between the ages of 14 and 29. The women had been captured in the Anfal Campaign and sold to Egypt’s nightclubs.

This was the will of Saddam’s cruel regime, to devastate Kurdish community in every way possible. Also under Saddam Hussein's Arabisation policy, uncounted thousands of Kurds, Turcomans and other non-Arabs were driven out of Kirkuk to make way for mainly Shia Arabs brought up from the south.

Chiman still wonders about the destination of these women. Adalat said, “after this document was disclosed, a number of women from Erbil , Duhok and Suleymania have established a special committee to pursue their fate.

They collected signatures and offered memorandums to local, Iraqi, American and international officials and organizations”. “But, those efforts were fruitless even the former Kurdistan Parliament put back the question to the new one,” she added.

Chiman and other Kurds still wonder why there is no support either from the Kurdish authorities or from the Iraqi and international parties to seek the destiny of those innocent women, while Saddam and his henchmen are on trial?

An official in the Ministry of Human Rights told Chiman that “the families of those victims of Saddam’s wild policies have been distinguished.” Chiman wonders how those poor families from Kirkuk’s suburbs can afford to search for their virgin daughters kidnapped by Saddam to be sold to Egyptian nightclubs and adultery places, on their own?!

I wonder why no one cares about the destiny of these women? I also wonder why these anti-war fanatics say Kurdistan (.. or Iraq..) was better off with Saddam Hussein.


Source: Hewler Globe, BBC

[Al-Huda]

La hawla wela quwata ila billah...

You can not fully understand what a creature that man is with out living under his power.

Every time my family talk about him it gives me the creeps. I swear a dark shadow takes over me. The anger can not be described.

My Allah Subhana wa ta'ala bless every soul that has been tortured or killed by him (incl my uncle)

We Salam

[Yosef]

Assalam Alaikum

yes it is impossible to even imagine how it must have been to live under the saddam regime. I have an Iraqi family living next door, and on the evening it was annonced that he was caught by the americans, they invited me in for a party. And they told me stories about how they were treated in Iraq- it still gives me goosebumps just thinking about it. The father in the family were tortured in ways you can´t imagine, and allthough not very pleasent he insisted on showing me the scars on his back and legs.