Origins of the Kurdish Genocide

Ibrahim Sadiq

doi:10.5771/9781793636836

Summary

The author argues that a part of the history of nation building in Iraq through addressing its political characters, different communities, agreements and pan Arab ideology, including the Baath ideology and its attempts to seize power through nondemocratic methods. It is an attempt to approach the essence of the exclusion mentality of the ruling elite in order to understand the process of genocide against the Kurdish people, including all existing religious minorities.

This essence of the process has been approached in the framework of the civilizing and de-civilizing process as a main theory of the German sociologist, Norbert Elias.

Thus, this book may be considered as one of the comprehensive books to present a study of state-building in Iraq, along with identifying some of the political figures that had an essential impact on the construction. On the other hand, it is a comprehensive study of the genocide, in the sense of searching for the causes and roots of the genocide. The Anfal campaigns took place in 1988, but the process started as far back as the end of the sixties and the beginning of the seventies of the last century.

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Copyright year: 2021
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-3682-9
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-3683-6
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 232
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
3. List of Abbreviations No access
1. Overview of the Chapters No access
2. Notes No access
3. References No access
1. Theoretical Perspective No access
2. State Formation No access
3. Monopoly and State Building No access
4. Nation State No access
5. De-Civilizing Process No access
6. Ethnocentrism No access
7. Summary No access
8. References No access
1. Iraqi State Formation No access
2. Toward Genocide No access
3. The Emergence of the Baath Party No access
4. The Phenomenon of Militias No access
5. Summary No access
6. Notes No access
7. References No access
1. Adopting Violence No access
2. The Second Baath Regime and Violence No access
3. Faili Kurds: The Weakest Chain No access
4. The Expulsion No access
5. The Deportation No access
6. Evacuation and Forced Camps No access
7. The Kurds: The Fuel of Others’ War No access
8. Barzani Gendercide No access
9. The Martyr Halabja4 No access
10. Summary No access
11. Notes No access
12. References No access
1. The Essence of Anfal No access
2. Mood of the War: Does It Matter? No access
3. The Preparation No access
4. Concentration Camps No access
5. The Anfals, or in Kurdish “Anfalekan” No access
6. The Process of Annihilation No access
7. Characteristics of the Anfal Campaigns No access
8. Summary No access
9. Notes No access
10. References No access
1. The Establishment and the Instability No access
2. Annexation and Unity No access
3. Baath’s Ideology No access
4. The Coup and Totalitarian Authority No access
5. In Order to Find a Target No access
6. Summary No access
7. Note No access
8. References No access
1. The Arabization Policy of the BP No access
2. Forced Complexes No access
3. The New Era of Destruction No access
4. Anfal Campaigns (Final Solution) No access
5. The Preparation for the Anfal Campaigns No access
6. Summary No access
7. Notes No access
8. References No access
1. References No access
Index No access Pages 223 - 230
About the Author No access Pages 231 - 232