RepositorySpecial Collections Archives (GB 0029)
Ref NoEUL MS 403/8/2/2
Date1988-2008
LevelFile
TitlePapers on the Halabja bombing and Anfal genocide
DescriptionPapers on the Halabja bombing and Anfal genocide, including a handwritten Kurdish document on projects in Halabja, a press release by author Joost Hilterman on his book 'A poisonous affair' (2008) about Halabja, a copy of Ibrahem Hawramany's photobook about the Halabja bombing 'Eleven and thirty five minutes before noon' [Yazde u si u penc xolek], a condemnation of the events in Halabja by the Syrian Communist Party (from a radio broadcast on Sawt Thawrat Kurdistan al-`Iraq on 4 July 1988), a press release by Swedish foreign ministry condemning use of chemical weapons in Halabja (1988), copies of two posters on Halabja by the Kurdish Socialist Party of Iraq (1988), an appeal to world opinion on the first anniversary of the attack on Halabja by al-Hizb al-Ishtiraki al-Kurdistani - al-`Iraq (1989), a proclamation on Halabja by al-Tahaluf al-Dimuqrati al-Kurdi fi Suriya (1994), a PUK statement on the 8th anniversary of Halabja (1996), promotional material for the screening of a documentary about Halabja in Washington in 2003, details of the Awadani conference on the 10th anniversary of Halabja in Berlin (1998), a programme for events and discussions in the Norwegian parliament to mark the 20th anniversary of the Anfal and Halabja massacres, an undated short story in Arabic about Halabja, various papers relating to the work of the Halabja Committee, a list of members of the Halabja committee with addresses, a letter from World Union of the Cities of Peace, Halabja Communities to the Swedish Committee for Kurdish Human Rights (1992), Remarks by Christine Gosden before the UN Commission on Human Rights & article by Gosden on post-graduate programme for treatment and study of exposure to chemicals (1999), handwritten notes by Omar Sheikhmous on a speech to a conference on the Anfal held in Hewlêr/Irbil (13 October 2007), Meddelande no. 2 from Kurdiska Riksförbundet on Halabja, Nyheter no. 1/Agahdarî no.3 (1990) from Kurdiska Riksförbundet about a protest meeting on Halabja (with handwritten notes in Kurdish by Sheikhmous), two copies of 'Displaced', an illustrated booklet accompanying a 2008 exhibition of work by Osman Ahmed at the Imperial War Museum, London, which explores the Kurdish experience of the Anfal genocide, two posters (large and small) for the 1993 art exhibition in Paris 'Peintres de l'Anfal, a Swedish campaign booklet about Halabja, a copy of 'Survival/Vejin: a magazine for ecology, culture and human rights in Kurdistan' (ca.1990) and a presscutting (Washington Post, 21/8/2006) about the beginning of Saddam Hussein's trial for the attack on Halabja.
LanguageArabic; Kurdish; English; Swedish; German
FormatVarious formats
Access StatusOpen
Creator_NameSheikhmous; Omar (1942-)
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