Hussein accused of genocide (tags)
Saddam Hussein has been charged for the first time with genocide, an Iraqi judge announced today. Hussein will stand trial on charges relating to the Anfal campaign against Iraqi Kurds in the 1980s. The campaign included the gassing of 5,000 civilians in the village of Halabja, but judge Ra'id Juhi said that incident was not included in the charges and would be prosecuted separately.
Kurdistan: History,Activity, Hopes,Appraisal, Horror and Analysis 1974-2001 (tags)
Kurdistan is an important region. With 25,000,000 recorded people, shaped much like the outline of the continent of Africa only much smaller an sliced by Turkey, the Islamic Republics of Iran and Iraq, Syria and a pocket of Armenia Kurdish men and women have endured uprisings, loss of 100,000's of thousands of lives, imported weapons used against them, strange alliances and bio/chem weapons.