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33 Years After the Anfal Campaign, Iraq's Kurds are Still Vulnerable

33 Years After the Anfal Campaign, Iraq’s Kurds are Still Vulnerable
The Peshmerga force which was established to emancipate the Kurds cannot guarantee their existence let alone their freedom.
In 1988, the Baathist regime of Iraq subjected more than a quarter of the Iraqi Kurds to one of the worst crimes of the last century. In the so-called Anfal campaign more than 182,000 people were buried alive, sold, or disappeared. Acquaintances of the victims are still living with the hope that their relatives will one day come back.
Iraqi Kurds are still vulnerable. The Kurdish-Yazidigenocide of 2014 is a conspicuous case. Currently, the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) is more divided and weakened than ever before. The KRI maintains a massive security service but is unable to protect its populationandterritory. The Peshmerga forces were initially organized in 1943 By Mustafa Barzani to secure Kurdish rights in Iraq. However, Barzani fled Iraq, crossed the border to Iran, and pledged allegiance to defend the newly established Republic of Mahabad and preserve its freedom. The republic fell and its president Qazi Muhammad was executed in public. Similarly, the KRI’s Peshmerga failed to save the Iraqi Kurds and large swathes of its territory. In other words, when military security is in ruins, it renders the rest of the security services redundant.

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CNN Newsroom With Brooke Baldwin-20150417-19:02:00

if this is indeed him. in the past, we've gotten reports that he's been killed and he's reappeared. so his dna is going to be sent to baghdad to be checked. now, this was a man who has evaded first the u.s. and then iraqi forces from 2003 until today, perhaps. and he had very close ties with isis although he was the head of his own military organization that functioned in that area. he's a man who does have ties with isis has cooperated and worked with them but we understand from on nervousers and analysts that ties between his group and isis have been becoming a little less smooth in recent months. >> had been fraying. that's what i heard. as we await the dna test results, colonel, many of the

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CNN Newsroom With Brooke Baldwin-20150417-19:03:00

isf defectors who went on to join isis, you know in the very beginning were former saddam hussein cronies. how would that factor into al douri's ability to make friends with them? >> well he was probably leading the charge and uniting the two groups. we had kicked the army of saddam hussein out of iraq at least those that wouldn't reconcile with the new regime. during the surge of 2007 2008 we defeated most of al qaeda in iraq and kicked it across the border as well. in syria, they joined together. they realized that the enemy of my enemy is my temporary friend at least. what al douri brought to isis was a brutal sense of strategy. you could sense that last year as they went first into anbar province then took mosul, then headed down to baghdad. there was a real sense of strategy and a plan behind what they were doing. i think that's what al douri

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CNN Newsroom With Brooke Baldwin-20150417-19:05:00

i think this was inevitable that they would fight together and fall apart over who was going to control what. >> colonel, ben, thank you both very much. you saw him apologize on scene. now robert bates has apologized on national television for killing a man after he says he confused his gun for his taser. today the oklahoma volunteer deputy who's been charged with manslaughter broke his silence, speaking to nbc. at one point, the 73-year-old insurance executive demonstrated how exactly he was carrying his weapons during this undercover sting operation in which he says he accidently killed 44-year-old father eric harris. harris ran from these undercover officers who they say he sold them illegal weapons and drugs. >> first and foremost let me apologize to the family of eric harris. you know this is the second worst thing that's ever happened to me -- or first.

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CNN Newsroom With Brooke Baldwin-20150417-19:01:00

personnel at the consulate are safe and accounted for. but it does represent something of a dramatic security breakdown in a part of iraq that until now has been relatively secure. >> so that is erbil. just south of there, another operation in tikrit. let's talk about that. iraqi security forces killing this top leader. what was he doing there? what has he been doing? and do you know of any ties to isis? >> well this is ibrahim al douri, old right-hand man of saddam hussein. according to iraqi officials, there was an operation that appears to include both iraqi military and these paramilitary shiite forces. they somehow hit a convoy in which al douri was traveling. it's not confirmed at this point

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CNN Newsroom With Brooke Baldwin-20150417-19:42:00

>> geena davis is joining me now. it is so wonderful to see you. welcome. >> thank you very much. >> so of course just coming out of that we're talking about hillary clinton's announcement that yes, indeed it's official she'll be running for president. you played a commander in chief on television. in real life let me ask you this, you surprise it hasn't happened yet? >> well, i'm not surprised, let's say, but i am frustrated by how long it's taken. i remember when i was doing this show every interview i did, the interviewer would eventually say, do you think we'll ever see a female president in our lifetime? i'd be like what century do you live in? yes. we not only need to have the first one, we need to have it absolutely as likely that it'll be a woman as a man right away immediately. we can't wait around anymore for this to happen. you know if we add women to

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