The Absurd Cause For The Faili Kurds Holocausts

This entry is part 2 of 8 in the series Faili Kurds Holocausts

Dr. Ala Musa Hasan | Exclusive to iKurd.net

World’s Conspiracy

The implementation of the mass deportation and the execution of the Faili Kurds population was the world’s plan against this group of inhabitants, as well as, it was the superior strategy of the Baath regime against the Kurdish people.

The purpose of this action was to deprive the Faili Kurds of Iraq from all their rights and privileges and drive them from all their geographically strategic areas for the reason of ethnic cleansing.

Their plan began by crushing the Kurds’ nationality, characteristics, ethnicity, and economic dominance at the center of power in Baghdad through unfair deportation and ethnic cleansing procedures.

During the 1980’s deportations of the Faili Kurds people, many thousands of adult youths between the ages of 17-35 years old were separated from their families and they were incarcerated at Abu-Ghraib Jail without any legal procedures. Saddam’s Interior Ministry issued a policy on 10 April 1980, stating that “all youths aged between 18 and 28 are exempt from deportation and must be held at detention centers until further notice”.

Most of those young men and women who were affected by this order were Faili Kurds youths, and none of their families ever saw their loved ones again. Those detainees’ youths were used for chemical experiments and they were all killed during those experiments in gas and chemical warfare centers in Iraq.

The detentions of the Faili Kurds youths began before the September 1980’s invasion of Iran, there were at least 13,000 Faili Kurds youths, vanished into a thin air just like that. As always in elsewhere in the world, there is no solid proof for that.

Few months before Saddam’s invasion of Iran during September 1980’s, tens of thousands of Iranian soldiers were killed an appalling death by gas burns and blisters that was experimented on the Faili young men and women who were used for experiments in gas and biological warfare agents whose ingredients were originally supplied by the United States and other Western countries.

According to an Iraqi protester whom refuses to ally himself to the Iraqi opposition, stated that “a large number of young Faili Kurds detainees may have perished as a result of being used as guinea pigs for Saddam Hussein’s research programs at various chemical, biological and nuclear warfare laboratories”. The same source shared that, the Iraqi scientists who used to work on those experiments and later on they became fugitive at Urabe, did verify those biological warfare testing programs.

As well as, another report by an Iraqi Kurdish refugee whom settles in Lebanon shared that the Western intelligence had the complete knowledge about the fate of the thousands of the young detainees, but they kept those information confidential.

He also mentioned, “During the war with Iran many of the young detainees were taken to secret laboratories in different locations in Iraq and were exposed to intense doses of chemical and biological substances in a myriad of conditions and situations.

With every military setback at the front causing panic in Baghdad, these experiments had to be speeded up – which meant more detainees were needed to be sent to the laboratories, which had to test VX nerve gas, mustard gas, Sarin, Tabun, Aflatoxin, Gas Gangrene and Anthrax.”(biphome.spray.se/faili.kurd, October, 2015)

Not one of those facts and accusations were used against Saddam Hussein and his regime by United State or Urabe, and no one around the world had the courage to speak about those missing thousands of the Faili Kurds young people who were detained by Iraq just before the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq war. The purpose of this cover-up due to the Westerns embarrassment for its support for Saddam’s chemical programs during that war.

It was also an attempt to avoid any inquiry for how President Saddam and his scientist obtained the means to wage chemical warfare against his people and opponents. As well as, the Arab and Muslim states, media, politicians and international media, and organizations did indeed keep a deafening silence on these tragic events and some of them did indeed support these measures openly or tacitly.

Because during that time, Saddam Hussein and his regime was considered to be the hero of the Arab nation and he was backed politically, militarily, and financially, and was summoned for defending and safeguarding the Eastern Gate from the Persian enemy.

This large-scale slaughters and brutal ethnic cleansing of the Faili Kurds citizens was taking place openly in the face and before the eyes of the world and no one had the courage to stop it or talk about it. But they let Saddam to continue murdering his people and they provided him with all the means to do that.

So my puzzling question is, “Why did the World allow Saddam and his Baath regime to treat the Faili Kurds so ruthlessly”? And “Why didn’t the World take any serious measures to stop this madness”? This type of ruthless treatment from arbitrary arrests of the Faili Kurds youths, to the use of chemical weapons against them was well known to the World and it was documented as well. It was a reflection of the Nazi and Stalinist ideology and Arab ultra-nationalism superiority which was intolerant to the minority’s rights, and the World allowed it to happen.

The question that begs every Faili Kurd person today is, “What did really happen to those Faili Kurds youths”? “Have they actually been executed”? “If yes, then, where were they buried”? And “Where are their graves”? The questions are many but the answers are no where to be found.

In fact, no one really knows what has happened to those detainees of the Faili Kurds youths, although some documents have been found on a number of them stating that they have been executed, but it doesn’t indicate the nature and the location of their execution.

Only God knows what really happened to those thousands of Faili Kurds young detainees and their whereabouts, and their fate and their graves. Thousands of Faili Kurds families are still looking for clues about their loved ones and their graves.

Dr. Ala Musa Hasan, a Canada-based Faili Kurd, PHD Candidates in Clinical Psychology.

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