Writing the Modern History of Iraq 2012
DOI: 10.1142/9789814390576_0015
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Searching for Sense: The Concept of Genocide as Part of Knowledge Production in Iraqi Kurdistan

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“…Before the rise of ISIS, the demand for the "Anfal" campaigns (of deportation and massacre undertaken by the Ba'ath regime against Kurdish civilians during the 1980s) to be accepted as a genocide, was a keynote of Kurdish international relations. Crimes against humanity committed by the Saddam Hussein regime were (and are) memorialised, through statues, museums, investigations and oral history projects with victim narratives and testimonies figuring strongly (Fischer-Tahir, 2012). However, it is noticeable that there are still some kinds of victimhood which are difficult to enunciate and these are often associated with namûs.…”
Section: Yezidi Voices In the Mediamentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Before the rise of ISIS, the demand for the "Anfal" campaigns (of deportation and massacre undertaken by the Ba'ath regime against Kurdish civilians during the 1980s) to be accepted as a genocide, was a keynote of Kurdish international relations. Crimes against humanity committed by the Saddam Hussein regime were (and are) memorialised, through statues, museums, investigations and oral history projects with victim narratives and testimonies figuring strongly (Fischer-Tahir, 2012). However, it is noticeable that there are still some kinds of victimhood which are difficult to enunciate and these are often associated with namûs.…”
Section: Yezidi Voices In the Mediamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The controversy over recognition of the Armenian genocide is well known in the region and a major part of discussions in Turkey about the Kurds' past. Before June 2014, the KRG's key international demand was its campaign for Anfal to be internationally recognised as genocide (Fischer-Tahir, 2012). Apart from any more concrete benefits, success would inscribe the stateless Kurds into international frames of reference.…”
Section: Yezidi Voices In the Mediamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This corresponds to established patterns of Anfal victim and survivor representation in Iraqi Kurdish political discourse (cf. Hardi, 2011;Mlodoch, 2012;Fischer-Tahir, 2012a) and also relates to a more general policy of justifying political rule with reference to martyrs of the armed liberation struggle and of genocidal persecution (Laizer, 1996;Fischer-Tahir, 2003, 2012bWatts, 2012).…”
Section: ‫حەقیقەتی‬mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This corresponds to established patterns of Anfal victim and survivor representation in Iraqi Kurdish political discourse (cf. Hardi, 2011;Mlodoch, 2012;Fischer-Tahir, 2012a) and also relates to a more general policy of justifying political rule with reference to martyrs of the armed liberation struggle and of genocidal persecution (Laizer, 1996;Fischer-Tahir, 2003, 2012bWatts, 2012).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%