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3.1 Military operations and chemical attacks.Researcher Autumn Cockrell-Abdullah states that the Anfal has become "an important constitutive element of Kurdish national identity". Sweden, Norway, South Korea and the United Kingdom officially recognize the Anfal campaign as a genocide. The campaign's name was taken from the title of Qur'anic chapter 8 ( al-ʾanfāl), which was used as a code name by the former Iraqi Ba'athist Government for a series of systematic attacks against the Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq between 19, with the peak in 1988. The campaign's purpose was to eliminate Kurdish rebel groups as well as to Arabize strategic parts of the Kirkuk Governorate. The Iraqi forces were led by Ali Hassan al-Majid, on the orders of President Saddam Hussein, against Iraqi Kurdistan in northern Iraq during the final stages of the Iran–Iraq War. The Anfal campaign ( Arabic: حملة الأنفال‎, romanized: Harakat al-Anfal Kurdish: شاڵاوی ئەنفال‎), also known as the Anfal genocide or the Kurdish genocide, was a genocidal counterinsurgency operation carried out by Ba'athist Iraq that killed between 50,000 and 182,000 Kurds in the late 1980s. Massacres of Hutus during the First Congo War (1996–1997)Įthno-religious genocides in contemporary era.Genocide of Bosniaks and Croats by the Chetniks.Iranian offensives to free Iranian territory (1981–82)