When Britain armed Iraq’s genocidal war on the Kurds

Conservative and Labour governments supported Baghdad’s brutal attack on the Kurds 60 years ago, knowing it may have constituted genocide, declassified files show.
- UK ministers stepped up arms exports to Iraq’s regime after it launched a “terror campaign” against the Kurds in 1963
- Thousands of rockets were sent to Baghdad knowing they would be use to destroy Kurdish villages
- The British attempted to ensure the United Nations would not discuss allegations of genocide in Iraq
- Labour government ignored Kurdish leader’s plea to prevent Iraq beginning possible chemical weapons attacks against Kurds