After the Iraqi army withdrew from northern Iraq in 1991, over 18 tons of archives documenting Saddam Hussein’s hideous crimes against the Kurds stayed behind. We publish the incredible story of how the files were uncovered, saved and stored.
The transfer of Baath Party documents to the United States in 2004 faced a campaign of criticism led by the Iraqi academic and writer Saad Eskandar. Here is a presentation of the reasons for this rejection and the questions that could be raised about the documents’ return …
17 years later, documents pertaining to the national leadership of the dissolved Ba’ath Party, ones that reveal enthralling facts about Saddam Hussein’s era in Iraq, are returned to Iraq …
