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Barzani boys and men over the age of 8 (of whom 315 were between 8 and 17), according to eyewitnesses, and relocated them to the south of the country where they disappeared and were never heard from again.(21) Reports were that all the detainees were initially drained of their blood and then buried en masse on the Iraq-Saudi Arabia border. More tragic than that was the living conditions of women and children left behind in the collective towns.

These families were terrorized by repeated instances of transgressions, midnight raids, and break-ins by intelligence members, and they were also frequently deprived of electricity, water, and food supplies. These crimes have been such that one of the renowned Iraqi authors, KanĂ­an Makiya, was quoted as saying he was so affected by the gravity of the crimes that he was embarrassed of having been born in Iraq.(22) After 1987, the former dictator of Iraq and his henchmen began a more serious form of genocide, which they announced as Anfal. Anfal did not begin from nowhere. In fact, it was well though out and planned ahead of time. A government directive dated 29/3/1987 gave full authorization to Ali Hassan Majeed, better known as 54