The Iraqi Kurds During The Iran-Iraq War

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The Iraqi Kurds make up seventeen percent of Iraq’s population primarily located in northern Iraq. In 1946, Mustafa Barzani established the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in Baghdad, a splinter group of the PDKI, which currently maintains influence in both Iraqi and Iranian Kurdistan. The KDP seeks to form a system of equal rights and freedom amongst all Kurdish people; however, they exhibit tribal and aristocratic party inclinations controlled by the Barzani tribe (Al-Nuaimi, Politics of Kurdistan, 1). During the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980’s, Saddam’s regime worked with the Iranian Kurds to inflict further damage on the advancing Iranian military. Towards the end of the Iran-Iraq War, Saddam shifted focus to the Iraqi Kurds. The Anfal

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