by Steve Sweeney
in Dokan, Iraqi Kurdistan

SURVIVORS of Saddam Hussein’s brutal campaign against the Iraqi Kurds have urged the United Nations, Britain and the United States to break their silence and prevent Turkey from carrying out another genocide.

Speaking to the Morning Star in the city of Dokan, where the Anfal campaign began in February 1988, they accused Western countries of putting oil and other corporate interests before the lives of Kurdish people.

“Nato, the UN, the US and Britain are silent while Turkey invades us,” said Shamal Muhammed Sabir, who was four when he lost his entire family in the 1988 Iraqi military operation.