Map presented by the Kurdish League Khoybun to the San Francisco Conference on March 30, 1945
At Sardaw, a former Iraqi military headquarters on the outskirts of Sulaimaniya, trench graves are dug up to reveal the remains of executed Iranian prisoners of war. A total of 18 Iranian soldiers were found executed in violation of the Geneva Conventions. An additional 13 civilians were found buried beside them. Northern Iraq, 1991
Trench graves are exhumed at the former Iraqi military headquarters of Sardaw on the outskirts of Sulaimaniya. A total of 18 Iranian soldiers were found exectued in violation of the Geneva Conventions. An additional 13 civilians were buried beside them. Sulaimaniya, 1991
Exhumation of an old grave in the cemetery of Arbil where an executed civilian was buried by local gravedigger. Northern Iraq, 1991
Map of Koreme gravesite, Jim Briscoe, American forensic anthropologist. 1992
I was stunned by what I saw. I had never witnessed such a complete and systematic destruction of village life, even in ten years of covering the conflicts in Central America.
Although few Western observers had been inside northern Iraq for nearly a decade, reports periodically leaked out through the Kurdish network about Saddam Hussein's 1988 "Anfal" campaign, a brutal attempt at annihilation. Nearly 100,000 Kurds were said to have "disappeared." After reports that mass graves had been uncovered inside the Kurdish enclave, the group Human Rights Watch sent a mission into the territory to investigate. It was an opportune moment, since no one knew just how long it would take Saddam to regain military strength and reassert control over the region
-S.M. from "Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History"
Iraq, 1992
TEARSHEET. The New York Times Magazine. January 3, 1993. Sister with her exhumed brother at Koreme mass gravesite. Norther Iraq
Map of Koreme gravesite, Jim Briscoe, American forensic anthropologist. 1992
Widow at mass grave found in Koreme. Northern Iraq, June 1992
New cemetery of Gohtapa where villagers from mass grave were reburied. June 1992
Dr. Clyde Snow, internationally known forensic anthropologist, holds the blindfolded skull of an executed male teenager estimated to be between 15-18 years old. The skull was found with two bullet holes in his head. Northern Iraq, December 1991
Dr. Clyde Snow overlooks the exhumation of graves at Sardow military base in Sulaimaniya. Northern Iraq, 1991
Children's graves. Iraq, 1992
Kurdish men look closely at clothes left on top of graves, marking unidentified bones exhumed below. Arbil cemetery, June 1992
Kurdish men look closely at clothes left on top of graves marking unidentified bones exhumed below. Arbil cemetery, June 1992
Arbil Cemetery. Iraq, 1991
Arbil cemetery. Iraq, 1991
Arbil cemetery. Iraq, 1991