Nation Building in Kurdistan

The Kurdish people and the Kurdish Regional Government faced huge challenges rebuilding their nation and identity after the atrocities and human rights abuses committed by Saddam Hussein and his regime. In 2005 a new Iraqi constitution recognised as genocide the persecution of Faylee Kurds, the disappearance of 8,000 Kurds belonging to Barzan and the chemical attacks of Al-Anfal and Halabja paving the way for new investigations and claims by Kurdish people. This book provides in-depth analysis of the tensions caused by the Kurdish experience, the claim for the independence of a united Kurdistan and the wider tendency towards political and social fragmentation in Iraqi society.