General information

Call No.:

350-4-3:74/2

Part of series

HU OSA 350-4-3 Records of the International Monitor Institute: Middle East: Iraq

Located at

BetaSP NTSC #74 / No. 2

Digital ver. identifier

HU_OSA_00009879

Date of air

1993-06-22

Date of production

1991

Date

1991

Level

Item

Primary Type

Moving image

Language

English, Arabic, Kurdish

Duration

39 min.

Content

Form/Genre

Television program

Contents Summary

BBC News program on Saddam Hussein's vendetta against the Kurds. Based on the existing evidence, the television series investigates Saddam Hussein’s attempt to totally annihilate the Kurds. The report tells the story of ethnic hatred through shots of the Arbil Municipal cemetery and its use as a dumping ground by Iraqi security forces; exhumations by Kurds after the Iraqi troops left; destruction of villages and eyewitness accounts of the destructions caused by the chemical attacks on Goptapa; voice recordings of Ali Hassan al-Majid advocating the use of chemical weapons against the Kurds, as well as mass killings; an interview with two of the survivors of firing squads; the site of burials near Kirkuk, where the women and children were taken away while men were tossed into a hole and killed; footage with women holding pictures of lost men; evidence of another massacre; scenes of torture chambers; undefended borders and the powerlessness of the Kurds against the Iraqi army; the lack of allied response to protect the Kurds on the ground; and footage of various attacks and assaults on Kurds.