Preserving Kurdish Stories of Survival in the Shadows of Genocide

Recommendable! In the course of history, some people are more persecuted than others.

Remember: "... Even events as definitive and traumatizing as the 1988 Halabja massacre, when Saddam Hussein launched the largest chemical weapons attack against a civilian population in history, killing up to 5,000 Kurdish people in the Iraqi city ..."

I remember meeting and joining grieving Kurdish refugees in my home town in Germany when this happened.

"... The attack occurred alongside the Anfal Campaign in the 1980s, when Saddam Hussein presided over a genocide that killed as many as 100,000 Kurds. It marked the most devastating assault in a century of persecution against Kurdish communities, who have suffered countless attacks as a minority population surrounded by hostility on all sides. More recent atrocities, in particular ISIS’ murderous campaign against the Kurdish-speaking Yazidi minority, have drawn attention. ..."

Preserving Kurdish Stories of Survival in the Shadows of Genocide Agora Vision is creating a digital library to share Kurdish stories with the world