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How did this genocide begin and how did it end? 

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How did this genocide begin and how did it end? 

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The Kurdish genocide began while Saddam Hussein was coming into command and his first political thing to do, was attack the Kurd's. Saddam and his cousin wanted Kurdistan to themselves, which was what their motives were. The genocide ended simply because he got hung. On the morning of December 30, 2006, Saddam Hussein was hanged to death for committing crimes against humanity.

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When did the Kurdish genocide take place? 

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When did the Kurdish genocide take place? 

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This genocide took place for four years. It went on from 1986 and ended in 1989.

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The Kurdish genocide happened in Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraq.

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During the Iran/Iraq war, most of the Northern Kurd's sided with Iran, hoping to gain the independence they had long sought. Iraqi president or, more appropriately, Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein wanted to keep the Kurd's from making any trouble during the war. So, Hussein decided to fight the Kurd's just as harshly as he was fighting Iran during the war.

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This is a map of where the Kurdish Genocide and all of the campaigns happened. Iraqi Kurdistan, officially called the Kurdistan Region of Iraq by the Iraqi constitution, is an autonomous region located in northern Iraq.

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Who were the victims in the Kurdish genocide? 

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Who were the victims in the Kurdish genocide? 

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In the Kurdish genocide, the victims were the Kurd's. They inhabit a mountainous region straddling the borders of Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Iran and Armenia.

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Event #2 that took place in America during the Kurdish genocide: 

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Event #2 that took place in America during the Kurdish genocide: 

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December 8, 1987 - The United States and the Soviet Union sign an agreement, the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, to dismantle all 1,752 U.S. and 859 Soviet missiles in the 300-3,400 mile range.

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Event #1 that took place in America during the Kurdish genocide:

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Event #1 that took place in America during the Kurdish genocide:

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On October 19, 1987, the stock market crash known as Black Monday occurs on the New York Stock Exchange. Stock markets around the world would mirror the crash with drops of their own.

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Who were the perpetrators in the Kurdish genocide?

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Who were the perpetrators in the Kurdish genocide?

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Iraq. Saddam Huessian was one of the main people who tortured and took place in the genocide, along with his cousin, Ali Hassan al-Majid

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The Kurd's had many different impacts on them from the Kurdish Genocide. First, Pierpaoli, Paul G., Jr. stated, "Some refugees, however, remain permanently homeless and stateless. They typically live in refugee settlements, where living conditions are extremely difficult." This piece of evidence helps answer the following claim "The Kurd's had many different impacts on them from the Kurdish Genocide." We know some Kurd's got their homes taken away by Saddam Huessian because he destroyed 2,000 villages. Most Kurdish genocide refugees were in a terrible state from when they got there homes taken away from them. Since they were homeless and were living in horrific conditions, the impact made on them came out to be heart breaking because of everything that happens to them. Next, Emma Ferguson said, "Most Kurdish refugees fled to many countries to escape persecution." This piece of evidence shows how the Kurdish were very impacted on the genocide. Their actions were impacted in they very moment they heard the word death, and fleed  to escape it. Finally, Jalal Barzanji claimed , "...that he describes the filthy and brutal conditions of his cell, including poor food and no clothing except the pajamas he arrived in. He also describes being tortured and subjected."  This piece of evidence supports the claim since he is describing the poor conditions in the prison cell he was kept in by Saddam Hussein. This made a huge impact on everyone who was kept in the prison cells because they had limited food and practically no clothing and were almost tortured to death. The impact that must have been made on the Kurdish prisoners were to value the things that you need most, because they didn't have much privileges with things that aren't normally valued. All in all, the Kurdish genocide had a huge impact on their lives and their afterlives.

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This is the former evil president of Iraq. He was born on April 28, 1937, in Tikrit, Iraq.  Saddam Hussein died of capital punishment on December 30, 2006.

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For decades, the Kurd's had looked to the U.S for support in their struggle againsed Saddam’s government, Washington’s response has been classic realpolitik- using the Kurd"s when it wanted to hurt Saddam and then dropping them when their usefulness had run out.

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These are the Kurd's during the Kurdish genocide. About 182,000 of them were killed in the genocide. The Kurd's were punished from being slaved and forced to work with no pay to being kept in a prison cell and sentenced to death for no reason.

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Saddam Huessian Victimized the Kurd's in many different ways. To start, Pierpaoli, Jr., Paul G. wrote, "in 1988 Hussein launched his so-called Anfal (Spoils of War) Campaign. Over a period of several months, Iraqi forces killed perhaps as many as 100,000 Kurd's." This quote supports the question "what did Saddam Huessian do to the Kurd's to victimize them?" because it is showing one out of many things the dictator did to them to make them the victims. In this quote, Hussein killed about 100,000 Kurd's for no reason which makes the Kurd's victims of Saddam Hussein. Next, Paul G. said, "Saddam Hussein destroyed some 2,000 villages of the Kurd's, often employing chemical weapons." This piece of evidence proves the claim because the Kurd's got there villages taken away by the awful guy Saddam Huessian. He victimized them by leaving the poor Kurd's with no where to sleep and no where to stay warm. Lastly, Mr. Bretton-Gordon stated, "... as Saddam was bent on their extermination, which began with the Anfal campaign of the 1980's, and is synonymous with the poisonous gas attack on Halabja in 1988." This quote  proves in a big way that Huessian victimized the Kurd's. He gassed the civilian Kurd's with poison, killing nearly 5,000. All of them in the gas attack suffered- not knowing what they did to deserve this and that it will effect their life ahead of them.  Overall, Saddam Huessian had strong and powerful ways of making the Kurd's victims, as well as harming and torturing them.