Barzani genocide

Culture of origin: Kurdish · Historical

Holiday sources: Kurdish

On 31 July 1983 Saddam Hussein's Baath regime rounded up between 5,000 and 8,000 men and boys of the Barzani tribe, took them to the deserts of southern Iraq, killed them and buried them in mass graves. By 2019 the remains of about 500 had been found and brought back to the Kurdistan Region; the fate of most is still unknown. Every 31 July the Kurdistan Region holds a remembrance at the Barzanis' memorial cemetery in Barzan, attended by its president, prime minister and parliament.