A bit about the constant struggle of the Kurds. A good read: Between 1984 and 1988, he fought against the Ba’athist regime of Saddam Hussein. Now Bamerni died holding Mosul Dam against the militants. He was 51 years old. He left Iraq after the Ba’athists’ response to Kurdish resistance, this brutal Anfal campaign, in which the Iraqi army destroyed nearly 3,000 Kurdish villages and killed 182,000 Kurds. It included history’s worst chemical weapon attack—against the town of Halabja—and displaced 1.5 million people.
Posted on: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 13:30:07 +0000