In the summer of 1963, the Iraqi government led by Abdul Salam Arif launched a widespread offensive in various parts of Kurdistan. From Baghdad, he issued a statement refusing to negotiate with the Kurdish revolutionary leadership and decided to launch a bloody war against the Kurds The Ba'athists believed that the regime of Abdul Karim Qassimi had not fought the Kurdish war seriously before them, but that they could defeat the Kurdish revolution in a short time. This shows that Abdul Salam Arif never believed in the Kurdish cause Iraq, reflected in its speeches, did not recognize the Kurds and did not use the word Kurdistan.
Before the war started on May 20, 1963, the army commander-in-chief ordered an economic embargo on Kurdistan. With the resumption of the war on June 10, crimes against moral and human values were committed in many places Iraq, wherever the army and military convoys were attacked by the Peshmerga, they would come and take revenge on the civilian population of Sulaymaniyah.
One of these acts of violence and inhumanity was the incident in Sulaimani, ordered by Zaim Sadiq Mustafa, commander of the 20th Brigade, which was known as the most brutal brigade in Iraqi history They selected 86 of them and executed them. Their only crime was that the Ba'athists had a picture of them Mustafa Barzani They had brought the leader of the Kurdish revolution into the crowd and ordered them to insult him. They refused to accept this. One of the detainees replied that if they were willing to insult their president, then we would obey them They massacred them.
reference:
- Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board.
