23RD ANNIVERSARY OF THE ANFAL CAMPAIGN IN IRAQI KURDISTAN

Early day motion 1599, tabled 15 March 2011 by Robert Halfon (Conservative). Signed by 21 members.

That this House notes that March 2011 marks the 23rd anniversary of the Anfal Genocide in Iraqi Kurdistan, including the massacre by chemical weapons of 5,000 people in Halabja on 16 March 1988; recognises and condemns the systematic slaughter of the Kurds by the Ba'athist regime under Saddam Hussein; regrets that almost 200,000 people were murdered and 4,500 villages destroyed; applauds the Iraqi Parliament and the Canadian Parliament for recognising these acts as genocide; and supports greater international recognition of the Anfal campaign as genocide.

Signatures by party: Labour 8, Liberal Democrat 4, Conservative 3, Social Democratic and Labour Party 3, Alliance 1, DUP 1, Plaid Cymru 1.