In a statement, Minister of Martyrs and Anfal Affairs in Kurdistan Region urged Kurdish National Congress to put Kurdish genocide as a main subject in its program.

In his message Minister of Martyrs and Anfal Affairs, Aram Ahmed Mohammad, suggested the preparation committee of National congress to consider Kurdish genocide as a main subject in upcoming Kurdish National Congress.

He asked the national congress to discuss Kurdish genocide in depth and to deal with it as a national project than needs further research and investigation.

The operation by toppled Saddam regime was called “Anfal Campaign;” Anfal means “Spoilers of war” in Arabic. This was a genocidal campaign that was followed by a series of systematic attacks against the Kurdish population and their means of livelihood – villages, agriculture, infrastructures, roads, etc.

The operation was carried from early 1986 until late 1989 and it took the lives of more than 2,150,000 mostly women, children, and elders as most of these areas were only inhabited by civilians; destroyed 4,000 villages; displaced at least a million; 860 became widows with greater number of orphans.

Then, in 1988, in a separate operation yet during the same time, there was another operation that was carried in the city of Halabja and its surroundings.

This came to become the symbol of the tragedies of Iraqi-Kurdistan and of Anfal. Halabja and the surrounding cities were bombarded with chemical agents such as: mustard gas; nerve agents sarin, tabun, and VX as well as blood agent hydrogen cyanide; or more commonly known as Weapons of Mass Destruction.