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The Kurdish Genocide lasted for 3 long years from 1986 to 1989 which were ongoing massacres.

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The Kurdish Genocide took place in middle eastern Europe,around Iran and Iraq.
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Some Important cities that were used are Sergalou,Bergalou,etc

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After the end of the Iran-Iraq war in 1988 the military began rounding people up for the Al-Anfal genocide campaign.
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Saddam Hussein and his cousin known as "Chemical Ali" were in charge of the Al-Anfal Campaign and began spreading propaganda and ordered the army to Murder all Assyrian Christians, Muslims, Jews, Shabak ect. They did this by gassing villages and towns with dangerous chemicals. After the gassing of the towns the military would search the homes of the town to look for any survivors, if any were found they would be shot to death. Many people tried to flee the country as refugees and immigrated to nearby countries, they as well needed to ration their limited amount of food.

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In the Kurdish genocide the people who were victims of the genocide  were the Kurdish population,Non-Arab Muslims,Assyrian Christians, Muslims, Jews, Shabak(all distinct from both Islam and Christianity), and Mandean Christians.

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The bystanders were the Al-Anfal which were based on totalitarian states and militarism. The rest of the countries were isolated.

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The perpetrators were Saddam Hussein and Ali Hasan Al-Majin known as Chemical Ali and Al-Anfal.

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In the span of 6 months 50,000-300,000 people had died.
After all this had happened Saddam Hussein and his cousin were tried in the ICC in 2005-2006  for War crimes and were executed soon after. As a result of these events the kurdish celebrate Anfal Memorial day every april 14.

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The government at the time considered the Kurdish population to be a major domestic threat and began attacking and gassing villages to get rid of them.

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Yes it was, the UN defined a genocide as a systematic killing, murder, or elimination of an entire ethnic or religious group or minority. The Al-Anfal military had planned many raids of towns and villages which hommed Kurds or non-Arab Muslims ect.

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http://www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/94bb3da1-e454-46e3-b483-eb594a31745c

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http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/11/20/sbm.iraq.galbraith/

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https://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/03/02/08_gassing.html

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“Saddam Hussein.” Biography.com, A&E Networks Television, 28 Apr. 2017, www.biography.com/people/saddam-hussein-9347918.

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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/ali-hassan-al-majid-chemical-ali-executed-iraq-article-1.459390

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Yes it was considered a Genocided by the UN definition because it was the elimination of a group of people.