Genocide Watch: Kurds on brink of ‘extermination’ 30 years after Anfal
Kurds in the Middle East are in "grave danger" and in the midst of genocide like the Anfal that culminated 30 years ago, according to an international watchdog.
"Remembering and commemorating these past genocides is very important to understand the warning signs and to look out for the genocides that are coming. And that is exactly what is coming right now," Gregory Stanton, the founding chairman of the US-based Genocide Watch, said in an interview.
April 14 marks the Anfal memorial day in the Kurdistan Region, when people remember 182,000 Kurds who were systematically rounded up and driven to southern Iraq and executed by Saddam Hussein's Baath regime.
"In the Anfal, there was the chemical attack on Halabja. Well guess what happened just last week? A huge chemical attack in Syria. As they say in French, 'The more things change, the more things stay the same.' It looks like nobody has learned," said Stanton.
