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  • Human Rights Watch’s comprehensive report on Anfal is here.

    Matthew Yglesias » Chemical Ali 2007

  • Khalifa presided over the conviction of Saddam Hussein and the so-called Anfal trial, which specifically dealt with the crimes committed against Iraqi Kurds.

    Saddam’s Unrepentant Judge 2008

  • How do you feel about having a chapter/Sure in your holy book called Anfal– “the spoils of war”– giving instructions on how to divvy up the booty of people that have been attacked?

    Spending seven Septembers hijacking my religion back 2008

  • In the mid - to late 1980s, tens of thousands of Iraqi Kurds were killed in what was known as the Anfal Campaign.

    ‘A Crime Against Humanity’ 2007

  • The military campaign against the Kurds was code name Anfal, or Spoils of War.

    CNN Transcript Sep 4, 2007 2007

  • It was the so-called Anfal campaign of 1988, the scope of which dwarfs the first trial we saw Saddam at which was over the killing of 148 Shiite men and boys from Dujail after a failed assassination attempt.

    CNN Transcript Aug 21, 2006 2006

  • This time it includes genocide for what was dubbed the Anfal campaign that targeted the country's Kurdish population back in the late '80s.

    CNN Transcript Nov 7, 2006 2006

  • The Iraqi High Tribunal, as you say, a short time ago announced that the investigation is complete into what was known as the Anfal campaign.

    CNN Transcript Apr 4, 2006 2006

  • Saddam is currently on trial by the same tribunal along with six others on separate charges related to the so-called Anfal Kurdish minority who were subjected to mass killings and other abuses in 1988.

    A Trial Giving Kangaroos A Bad Name 2006

  • Saddam is currently on trial by the same tribunal along with six others on separate charges related to the so-called Anfal Kurdish minority who were subjected to mass killings and other abuses in 1988.

    A Trial Giving Kangaroos A Bad Name 2006

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