Update on ongoing Anfal cases

Ayad Kakeyi, founding member and executive committee member of the KONCICC network, volunteer lawyer for the victims of Anfal and chemical weapons, and volunteer lawyer for the trial of chemical weapons companies and victims of Halabja.

On 3th september of this year, in Sulaimani Opinion of Sulaimani Province in the hearing of the compensation case of chemical weapons victims against foreign companies.

On September 21, he visited Samawa Court, the National Security Equipment Office, and Karkhi Third Court in Baghdad to investigate the trial of Anfal criminal Hajjaj, head of the evil prison of Ngra Salman military base, who is one of the criminals in the Anfal case.

The Anfal campaign was one of the darkest chapters in modern Iraqi history, a genocidal operation carried out by Saddam Hussein’s Ba’ath regime against the Kurdish people between February and September 1988. According to Human Rights Watch’s landmark report Genocide in Iraq: The Anfal Campaign Against the Kurds, the campaign involved mass executions, chemical weapon attacks, forced disappearances, and the destruction of thousands of villages, with evidence drawn from captured Iraqi documents and survivor testimonies