Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Robert Halfon (Conservative), on Tuesday, 15 March 2011, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 21 members in total.

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23RD ANNIVERSARY OF THE ANFAL CAMPAIGN IN IRAQI KURDISTAN

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.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

1599 

Session

2010-12

Other sponsors

Peter Bottomley

Kelvin Hopkins

Martin Caton

Jeremy Corbyn

Mark Durkan

Subjects

Iraq

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk