From 1992-1995, the regime waged a military and environmental
campaign against the ancient region of the southern marshes, draining
the waters, burning villages, killing and arresting civilian
inhabitants. As many as 300,000 marsh Arabs are believed to have been
driven away from their homes. Many thousands were forced to flee to
Iran, where they live in refugee camps. The regime continues to wage war
on the inhabitants of the region surrounding the marshes: villages have
been razed, inhabitants have been killed in shelling and men have been
jailed.
Since 1992, the Iraqi regime has conducted a campaign of ethnic
cleansing against Kurds and Turkomans in the Karkuk province (Ta'mim).
Several thousand families have been evicted from their homes, stripped
of their identification cards (and their ration cards), lost their
property and possessions, and told to leave the area.
Human rights abuses by the state are practiced daily in Iraq, against
all sectors of the population indiscriminately. The prisons are
overflowing, and the regime periodically conducts "prison-cleaning":
mass executions to reduce the population of inmates. Officers and
officials are executed regularly for their alleged involvement in
conspiracies. Families are thrown out of their homes, stripped of their
assets and forcibly deported to other parts of the country.