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Diplomatic missions visit the Kurdistan Region's Barzan

Head of KDP Foreign Relations, Hoshyar Siwaily, speaks to Western diplomats at the grave of Mullah Mustafa Barzani (Photo: Canada in Erbil/Twitter).
Head of KDP Foreign Relations, Hoshyar Siwaily, speaks to Western diplomats at the grave of Mullah Mustafa Barzani (Photo: Canada in Erbil/Twitter).
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ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Members of diplomatic missions in the Kurdistan Region visited Barzan in Erbil province on Saturday at the invitation of the Foreign Relations Office of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP).

In a Facebook post, the head of the European Desk at the Kurdistan Democratic Party-Foreign Relations Office, Amir Grgies, said his office "had its formal annual visit to the Barzan monument by selection of distinguished guests from the diplomatic missions in Kurdistan Region paying tribute to the late leader of Kurdistan the legendary Mustafa Barzani."

The guests visited the burial site of Mustafa Barzani and the museum commemorating the massacre of 8,000 Barzani tribesmen in the 1980s. 

​​At the end of the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s, the former Iraqi regime launched a genocidal Anfal campaign, the Arabic term used in the Quran for "spoils of war", against the Kurdish people.

It was a multi-phase political, military, economic, cultural, and social process of annihilation that resulted in the deaths of as many as 182,000 Kurds and the destruction of at least 5,000 Kurdish villages.

"Thank you @kdpfro for hosting #Erbil's diplomatic community in #Barzan. It was a moving experience to visit the burial site of Mala Mustafa Barzani & the monument to the memory of Barzan's victims of Anfal. I also enjoyed the delightful drive through beautiful landscapes," the office of the Embassy of Canada to Iraq in Erbil tweeted.

David Hunt, the UK Consul General to Erbil, tweeted that he was "mesmerized by the beauty of the #Barzan region."

Poland’s Consulate General Stanisław Guliński also visited Barzan and the genocide memorial in Barzan with Grgies.

A delegation from the US-led coalition previously visited Barzan on Mar. 14 for the 119th anniversary of the birth of Mullah Mustafa Barzani.

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Wladimir van Wilgenburg ,
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