It's OK; there's no New Zealanders involved afaik.
10,000? Source?
http://www.iraqfoundation.org/hr.html...In 1975, the regime waged its first war against the Kurdish citizens of Iraq, forcing thousands to flee to neighboring countries. In 1987, the regime carried out the notorious "Anfal" campaign, an operation of extermination that killed thousands of Kurds, with 100,000-180,000 more deemed "disappeared". Waves of Kurds fled across Iraq's borders to avoid the pursuit of the Iraqi army....
In March 1991, immediately following the Gulf war, the Iraqi regime turned its Republican Guard units against citizens who had risen in rebellion against the regime's oppression. Two million Kurds fled across the mountains into Turkey and Iran, as many children and elderly died of exposure and starvation. In the south, the regime's then defense minister boasted that the Republican Guard had killed 300,000 people. Conservative estimates place the number of dead at 30,000....
Guess you'll have to ask the Iraqis if it was worth it. Freedom is rarely, if ever, free.
"Find the cost of freedom, buried in the ground,
Mother Earth will swallow you,
Lay your body down."
