A number of MPs from the Kurdistan Region have accused the federal government and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) of being responsible for not providing the compensation and services that Anfal victims deserve.
The statements came after MPs recalled the Anfal crime committed by Saddam Hussein's regime against tens of thousands of Kurdish people between 1987 and 1989.

MP Ahmad Berwari said: "The issue of compensation and benefits is very important issue because it includes the majority, and we hope the KRG will provide more services and compensation.

"We also call on the federal government to compensate the victims and provide services and establish strategic projects that serve the affected citizens.

"This anniversary has affected us a lot because we lived through this great tragedy that our Kurdish people suffered from where the genocide and displacement operations affected hundreds of thousands of Kurdish families, and we had hoped the federal government to condemn this crime committed against the Kurdish people."

MP Ashti Aziz Saleh from the Gorran bloc said: "The Anfal issue is not related to the Kurdistan parliament only but it needs other parties like the Anfal Ministry in the KRG as well as the federal government.

"We issued last year a law to support the Anfal victims, but I don't think that this law is effective because they need more support and the problem is that the executive parties do not apply the law due to the lack of presence of supervising powers in the parliament or the executive bodies."

Media adviser to the presidency of the parliament Tariq Jawhar meanwhile said: "Many services were provided to the families of the Anfal victims but there's no comparison between the sacrifices made by the families of Anfal and the services provided to them. The government and parliament provided services and contributed to this but the size of the disaster and the victims need more years of work.

"We don't forget this tragedy that has left its negative effects on society and the psychological and social development in the Kurdistan Region to a further extent than we are living in now.

"The most important thing at this stage is to work, whether in parliament or the government in the region, in civil society organizations, the federal government, the Iraqi parliament and friends of the people of Kurdistan and the Iraqi people in Europe and the world, to inform the world about the Anfal crimes as genocide against the people of Kurdistan. This is of the most basic rights of the families of the Anfal victims."

The former Iraqi regime began a series of campaigns called Anfal campaigns on April 14, 1988 carried out on eight stages targeting Kurdish populations in different regions of the Kurdistan Region. This led to the killing of tens of thousands. The remains of some of the victims were found in mass graves after the fall of the regime.






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