On Wednesday, the remains of 172 victims of what many are calling the “Kurdish Anfal genocide” were finally buried at the Anfal Monument cemetery in Sulaimaniyah’s Chamchamal district in the Iraqi Kurdistan region. These remains were previously kept at a forensic medicine facility in Baghdad for over four years. Four mass graves, including hundreds of bodies believed to be Kurds killed by Saddam Hussein’s regime, were found in July 2019 in the Samawa desert of the al-Muthanna province of southern Iraq. Samawah is located approximately 280 kilometres (174 miles) southeast of Baghdad. It serves …