To: Mr Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
Subject: Recognizing Halabja Chemical Attacks & Anfal Campaign as crimes of
Genocide against the Kurds
Date: October 21, 2008
Historical Background:
Kurds are the largest nation in today’s modern and democratic world without their own state.
Kurdistan “the land of Kurds” which is located in the mountain regions of Zagros and Taurus
“Southwest Asia” have been divided into four separate and unstable parts of eastern Turkey,
northern Iraq, north-western Iran and north Syria since the end of the 1st World War following the
fall of Ottomans Empire. Ever since the Kurds have been denied their fundamental and basic rights
to live in peace and harmony by the same countries and regimes where their land has been divided
among them. Furthermore, they were subjected to all sorts of oppression and atrocities such as mass
killings, kidnapping, massacres, and genocide. Their fate and destiny have been decided by the
outsiders and oppressors instate of the right to self-determination and respect for their dignity as
human beings equal in rights with other nations. The last century has been known as the century of
war (WWI, WWII, Cold War, Korean and Vietnam War and Desert Storm I &II), human rights
violations, ethnic cleansing and genocide. Despite the enormous attempt to secure our chaotic
world into a more stable, peaceful and justice for all, these steps have come into shortages and
weaknesses due to the fact that much of the outcomes are still decided by outside forces that seem
to be far behind control and containment. Subsequently, more innocent lives have been lost and
more destruction has been done for no reason.
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
Subject: Recognizing Halabja Chemical Attacks & Anfal Campaign as crimes of
Genocide against the Kurds
Date: October 21, 2008
Historical Background:
Kurds are the largest nation in today’s modern and democratic world without their own state.
Kurdistan “the land of Kurds” which is located in the mountain regions of Zagros and Taurus
“Southwest Asia” have been divided into four separate and unstable parts of eastern Turkey,
northern Iraq, north-western Iran and north Syria since the end of the 1st World War following the
fall of Ottomans Empire. Ever since the Kurds have been denied their fundamental and basic rights
to live in peace and harmony by the same countries and regimes where their land has been divided
among them. Furthermore, they were subjected to all sorts of oppression and atrocities such as mass
killings, kidnapping, massacres, and genocide. Their fate and destiny have been decided by the
outsiders and oppressors instate of the right to self-determination and respect for their dignity as
human beings equal in rights with other nations. The last century has been known as the century of
war (WWI, WWII, Cold War, Korean and Vietnam War and Desert Storm I &II), human rights
violations, ethnic cleansing and genocide. Despite the enormous attempt to secure our chaotic
world into a more stable, peaceful and justice for all, these steps have come into shortages and
weaknesses due to the fact that much of the outcomes are still decided by outside forces that seem
to be far behind control and containment. Subsequently, more innocent lives have been lost and
more destruction has been done for no reason.
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