Length: 60 minutes
Format: HD - NTSC, DVCam - Pal
Language: Kurdish, Arabic, English
Subtitles: English
Producers: Jano Rosebiani, Enwer Shékhani
Director: Jano Rosebiani
Editors: Jano Rosebiani, Kawa Akreyi
Festival Screenings:
Tribeca Film festival, 2004 - New York (World premiere)
Asian Documentary Film Festival, 2004 - Seoul, South Korea
3rd Kurdish Film Festival, 2004 -2004 - London Public Access Film Festival, 2005 - Seoul, South Korea
"Rosebiani's emotionally moving sequence presents without comment a portrait of his fellow Kurdish victims. Footage of Ali Hassan al-Majeed,aka "Chemical Ali," detailing on camera his genocidal plans is truly chilling, as are eyewitness accounts of mass executions at Mahaweel camp, of prison torture in Kirkuk and of chemical bombings in Halabja.
It strikes the viewer that the accumulated testimony is ideal for the prosecution now readying its case against Saddam in his upcoming trial."
Festival Screenings:
4th Kurdish Film Festival - 2005 London
Oslo Documentary Festiva 2005, Norwayl
330 sites have been discovered, containing as many as 300,000 bodies.
1.2 Million men, women and children lost their lives between 1979 amd 2003 by Saddam's regime.
During Ali Hasan AL Majeed's Anfal operation on the Kurds (1986-1988) 184,000 civilians were killed, either by torture and starvation in concentration camps, chemical and biological bombardment, or were buried alive in the mass graves, and 4500 Kurdish villages were erased.
On March 16, 1988, 5000 civilians were killed instantly and thousands were dicapitated by Chemical Ali's acid and mustard gas bombardment. SInce then another 7000 have died from chemical related illnesses
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