National Archives

National archives shape the memory of individuals and communities, define their identity, and serve as a foundation for preserving information. Archives support government accountability and protect the rights of individuals, organizations, and states. By ensuring citizens' rights to access official information and historical knowledge, identity, democracy, accountability, and good governance, archives contribute to forming a responsible and informed society.

The Kurdistan National Genocide Archive (KGNA) website recognizes fundamental archival values. It is dedicated to promoting the efficient and effective management and use of records, archives, and data in all formats and preserving them as evidence of inhumane acts against the Kurdish people. Professional experience, research, archive management, and organization ideas are essential.

Therefore, as a starting point, we are organizing and doing scholarly work on archival documents from 1968 to 2003 in the framework of the National Archives Program to preserve the history of crimes committed against the Kurdish people. This work aims to create better conditions for the future of the people subjected to war crimes, inhumane acts, and systematic genocide by successive regimes of the Iraqi government throughout history, from the monarchy to the republic. Policies of ethnic cleansing and genocide constantly threaten their existence.

Hence, the archive creates a comprehensive vision of the future in compliance with international standards and becomes a strategic research institute's information source. It aims to raise awareness about the Kurdish genocide among the world public.

*  The national archive is a nation's identity, historical memory's role in countries, and the condition of transitional justice.

*  They bridge the past, present, and future, preventing forgetting and historical mistakes.

*  They are necessary to provide compensation to victims.

*  Nothing is more helpful in making fair and unbiased decisions than documents.

Our work here is based on 25 years of work, activity, research, and experience in the field of genocide., including practical, theoretical, and virtual research, as well as field trips to countries with relevant experiences, such as Holocaust sites and museums, the Holocaust Archive, the International Commission on Missing Persons, and the Institute for Genocide Studies in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Field trips to various genocide sites, Anfal, and chemical attacks in Kurdistan, collecting written, visual, and audio documents, and interviewing victims and their relatives are part of our efforts.
Participation in dozens of international conferences and congresses on genocide aims to archive and create a central database of missing persons with the following objectives:

*  Spreading knowledge about genocide and disappeared people in Iraq and Kurdistan.

*  It is understanding Iraq's international legal obligations regarding material and spiritual compensation, protection, and digging of mass graves.

*  Identify data protection and document collection requirements.

*  Collecting personal information of missing persons.

*  Standardize all categories of missing persons for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.

                         Adalat Omar

 Author and researcher in the field of genocide