The purpose of this research is to understand why the US didn’t recognize the Al-Anfal campaign to be a genocide. A research question was therefore made: Why did the US reject Al-Anfal campaign as a genocide? To answer this question, the definition of both politicide and genocide had to be clearly defined to understand how a conflict could be categorized.
The purpose of this research is to understand why the US didn’t recognize the Al-Anfal campaign
to be a genocide. A research question was therefore made: Why did the US reject Al-Anfal
campaign as a genocide? To answer this question, the definition of both politicide and
genocide had to be clearly defined to understand how a conflict could be categorized. This is
to understand the US's point of view on the conflict and to make it easier to explain
the reasons behind their unrecognition of the Al-Anfal campaign as a genocide. By defining
and connecting both terms to the political conflict between the US and Iran, this master
thesis will show how the US chose to cooperate strategically with Iraq to fight the Iranian
revolution. These connections are important since they describe the support Saddam Hussein
received from the US, which allowed him to take revenge on Kurds who
cooperated with Iran. The conclusion is that the US rejected to recognize Al-Anfal based on
their cooperation with Iraq and their view of Al-Anfal as a political conflict.
