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Document making a direct reference to chemical attacks undertaken by Iraqi forces
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Summary :
This is a second document making a direct reference to chemical attacks undertaken by Iraqi forces, this time during the Final Anfal in Badinan. Along with the attack on Halabja in March 1988, the attacks in Badinan in Augist 1988 were the only attacks that attracted any measure of international attention, largely owing to the ability of foreign journalists to interview refugees in Turkey and Iran. (For a description of the chemical attacks on Badinan, see chapter 10 in Genocide in Iraq).
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Main Document :
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
[Emblem of Iraqi Military Intelligence]
[In frame:] Please refer to the full number
The Martyrs Remain More Generous Than All of Us
Presidency of the Republic
Secretary
General Directorate of Military Intelligence
Subdirectorate of Military Intelligence, Eastern Sector
Confidential and Personal
Ref.: /Sh.3/Q.1/Qadissiyat Saddam/16093
Date: 13 December 1988
To: General Directorate of Military Intelligence (Sh.3)
Re: Information
The following is the information that we received from source no. 202 about the sabotage movements:
[Excerpted. Translated here is only point 10. a. on page 5:]
10. The following is information from the source regarding the journalists who visited the saboteurs in Iranian territory.
a. After the expulsion of the saboteurs of the First Section of the Barzani band [i.e., the KDP] in the Badman Sector by our forces during the Final Anfal operation, six British journalists arrived in the triangular border region of Iran, Iraq and Turkey to see the saboteurs who had come from the above sector via Turkish territory and interview them about the chemical strike undertaken by our forces.
(5 of 7)
Top Secret
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Taken from Bureaucracy of Repression,
The Iraqi Government in Its Own Words,
Human Rights Watch / Middle East |
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