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The Beginning
The Kurds are the largest ethnicity of people who do not have their own nation. They are also their own sect of Islam. The Kurds wanted to have their own land, and were promised such in 1920 among Iraq, Turkey, and Syria. None of these nations wanted to give up their land, so they were biased toward the kurds. They eventually obtained their own independent state, but it was crushed by Iranian troops. Prior to the independent state, the kurds created the Kurdistan Democracy party, which was and still is today the most prominent Kurdish resistance movement.
In the year of 1986, the Iraqi government created camps for the Security troops would take out men from the tribes and allegedly test the effects of various chemical agents on them. In other words, Kurdish men were gassed. This foreshadowed the al-Anfal campaign. The absence of an international response evoked Baghdad government to move forward in the extermination of Kurds.
During 1970s, the Ba’ath party was in Baghdad office. This was Saddam Hussein’s party. Initially, they had arranged an agreement with Kurdish rebel groups, and granted them rights to use and broadcast their language on the radio, with a certain degree of political autonomy. The agreement was not strong, and was not to last very long. The relationship between the Ba’ath party and the Kurds of Iraq began to break down when the part embarked on the arabization of the oil producing areas in Kurdistan. In other words, the government evicted Kurdish farmers and replaced them with poor Arab tribesmen and women. In case the Kurds tried to come back, the government sent out troops to guard the Arabs.
