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Crimes Against Kurds: The New Ethnic Cleansing of the Disputed Territories<\/a><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_blurb][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.19.18″]<\/p>\n “5 years on, ethnic cleansing of Kurds in Iraq continues”<\/strong><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.19.18″]<\/p>\n TJWG and Access Accountability helped support Crimes Against Kurds to release their landmark report.<\/p>\n The report will be available from October 16, 2022 at: https:\/\/crimesagainstkurds.org<\/a><\/p>\n October 16, 2022 marks five years since the invasion of Kirkuk and other disputed territories by the Iraqi federal government forces and Iranian-backed militias following the Kurdish referendum. Crimes Against Kurds collects open-source information on human rights violations perpetrated against Kurdish populations. Investigations by Crimes Against Kurds find that the ongoing campaign of widespread and systematic<\/a> ethnic-cleansing may amount to genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.19.18″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.19.18″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.19.18″]<\/p>\n The new report, “Crimes Against Kurds: The New Ethnic Cleansing of the Disputed Territories,” documents abuses carried out by the Iraq state, Iranian-backed militias, and ISIS including: Justice and accountability remain elusive for these crimes. International actors and stakeholders must act to stop abuses, implement accountability, and restore victims. The report includes preliminary legal analysis of select cases indicating violations in relation to Iraqi state obligations.<\/p>\n Through open-source investigation, Crimes Against Kurds documented Crimes Against Kurds also reports <\/p>\n The report’s lead author, Jaya Srivastava, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n “During the Anfal campaign the extermination of the Kurds was visible for the world to see. The Iraqi federal government is no longer gassing the Kurds, but the ethnic cleansing continues while the world looks away.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Researcher Susie Y. Hill said:<\/strong><\/p>\n “The value of Kurdish lives has hit rock bottom in the last 2-3 months and nobody knows about it. It is time for the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice to investigate and prosecute<\/a> the perpetrators of this systematic<\/a> ethnic cleansing.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Anonymous Kurdish Author said:<\/strong><\/p>\n “It is very easy to kill a Kurdish person in Kirkuk these days. The Iraqi state must respect it’s constitutional obligation to conduct a referendum on the status of the disputed territories, and institute transitional justice mechanisms for violations against Kurdish and other minority populations.”<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.19.18″][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”3.19.18″][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/accessaccountability.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/CAK-logo.png” url=”https:\/\/www.crimesagainstkurds.org\/” url_new_window=”on” _builder_version=”3.19.18″][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”2_3″ _builder_version=”3.19.18″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.19.18″]<\/p>\n Crimes Against Kurds<\/strong> is an internationally-based group of researchers focusing on abuses taking place in Kurdistan parts of Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Iran. Crimes Against Kurds conducts research to raise awareness on abuses happening in these areas, to conduct more effective advocacy advancing accountability for perpetrators and restoration for victims.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.19.18″ custom_padding=”0px|0px|0|0px|false|false”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.19.18″][et_pb_column type=”2_5″ _builder_version=”3.19.18″][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/accessaccountability.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Crimes-Against-Kurds.jpg” url=”https:\/\/accessaccountability.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/The-New-Ethnic-Cleansing-of-the-Disputed-Territories.pdf” url_new_window=”on” _builder_version=”3.19.18″][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_5″ _builder_version=”3.19.18″][et_pb_blurb url=”https:\/\/accessaccountability.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/The-New-Ethnic-Cleansing-of-the-Disputed-Territories.pdf” url_new_window=”on” use_icon=”on” font_icon=”%%266%%” icon_color=”#000000″ icon_placement=”left” _builder_version=”3.19.18″ link_option_url=”https:\/\/accessaccountability.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/The-New-Ethnic-Cleansing-of-the-Disputed-Territories.pdf” link_option_url_new_window=”on” global_module=”2191″ saved_tabs=”all”] Crimes Against Kurds: The New Ethnic Cleansing of the Disputed Territories [\/et_pb_blurb][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.19.18″] “5 years on, ethnic cleansing of Kurds in Iraq continues” [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.19.18″] TJWG and Access Accountability helped support […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4055,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-our-members"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accessaccountability.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accessaccountability.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accessaccountability.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accessaccountability.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accessaccountability.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4054"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/accessaccountability.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4083,"href":"https:\/\/accessaccountability.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4054\/revisions\/4083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accessaccountability.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accessaccountability.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accessaccountability.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accessaccountability.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
• Forced displacement
• Murder, abduction, rape
• Burnings and confiscation of farmlands
• Harassment of journalists
• Cultural discrimination
• Employment discrimination<\/p>\n
• 122 documented cases of murder (including 2 journalists) between 2017 and 2022
• 51 documented cases farm burnings between 2017 and 2022
• 25 documented cases of kidnapping\/abduction between 2017 and 2022
• Iraqi state ethnic cleansing directives<\/p>\n
• American-supplied weapons used to attack Kurdish security forces and civilians
• Journalists harassed and killed
• Security vacuum used to displace Kurds via ISIS and militias<\/p>\n