The following is a list of
massacres that have occurred in the area of modern
Iraq, and does not include
collateral damage, especially from
raids and
airstrikes, which were due to mistaken identity or unfortunately getting caught in the line of fire.
Kurdish members of the
Iraqi Communist Party target Turkmens leaving an estimated 20 dead. This was followed by Kurdish soldiers from the Fourth Brigade targeting Turkmen residential areas with mortars, causing the destruction of 120 homes. Between 31 and 79 Turkmen were killed with 130 wounded. The Iraqi government referred to the incident as a "massacre".
Iraqi authorities hanged 14 Iraqis for allegedly spying for Israel during a public execution in Baghdad; nine were Jewish, three were Muslim and two were Christian
The Iraqi military headed by Lieutenant Abdul Karim al-Jahayshee massacred 47 people in the Assyrian village of
Soriya (Ṣawriyā) including the Chaldean priest Ḥannā Yaʻqūb Qāshā and left 22 wounded.
February 5, 1977,
Safar uprising. Despite brutally enforced ban on public religiousness, thousands of people defy it and head to Karbala during the
Arba'een Pilgrimage. Hundreds were killed and thousands arrested by the regime.
March 16, 1988,
Halabja poison gas attack,
Halabja: 5,000+ deaths; Iraqi government used chemical weapons on Kurdish town; condemned as an act of genocide (The aforementioned Anfal genocide).
March 15, 2006, the
Ishaqi incident, where four women and five children, one aged five months were allegedly killed by U.S. Forces. This was denied by the Americans, who said a building collapsed during a firefight, killing four people—a suspect, two women and a child.[45]
March 2006, US troops killed 4 Iraq prisoners.[46]
Between May 7 and 8, 2006, 51 bodies were found in Baghdad, all handcuffed, blindfolded and shot in the head and abdomen.[47]
April 23, 2007,
2007 Mosul massacre,
Mosul; 23 died; the murders were considered to be a reprisal for the honor killing of a 17-year-old Yazidi girl.
On April 17, 2007, 51 bodies of Iraqi civilians and military personnel, who were killed in the previous two years, were found in Mahmudiya, south of Baghdad.
June 29, 2007, Al Ahamir Massacre, Al Ahamir, 10-14 Iraqi civilians were killed by Al Qaeda.
On June 30, 2007, 35 to 40 bodies were recovered from a recently dug mass grave in the town of Ferris, south of Fallujah, most likely victims of sectarian violence.
July 16, 2007, massacre of Shiite villagers in a village in Diyala province on by Sunni insurgents, 29 killed.[49]
April 4, 2010, insurgents dressed as US and Iraqi soldiers killed 25 people including 5 women in a village south of
Baghdad. They were linked to the
Awakening movement. They were handcuffed and shot in the head or chest. Seven were found alive in handcuffs. Major General Qassim Atta spokesman for the Iraqi security forces' Baghdad operations said
Al-Qaeda in Iraq was behind this.[50][51]
^Sykes, Percy (1934). "A summary of the history of the Assyrians in 'Iraq, 1918–1933". Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society. 21 (2): 255–268.
doi:
10.1080/03068373408725306. "At other villages batches of men were killed, the total number aggregating 550."
^Zubaida, S (July 2000).
"Contested nations: Iraq and the Assyrians"(PDF). Nations and Nationalism. 6 (3): 363–382.
doi:
10.1111/j.1354-5078.2000.00363.x. Retrieved 23 September 2011. The total number of Assyrian victims of these events was estimated by British officials at about 600, but Assyrian sources put it at several thousand.
^Llewellyn-Jones, Rosie (2019). "The Assyrians in World War One and the 1933 Massacre: New Discoveries in the Rsaa Archives". Asian Affairs. 50 (4): 569–587.
doi:
10.1080/03068374.2019.1672427.
S2CID211652462. "Nearly 1,000 men, women and children were killed by Iraqi armed forces – and their villages were looted by Kurdish tribesmen."
^
abRoutine calculations do not count as original research, provided there is consensus among editors that the result of the calculation is obvious, correct, and a meaningful reflection of the sources. Basic arithmetic, such as adding numbers, converting units, or calculating a person's age are some examples of routine calculations. See also Category:Conversion templates.https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.TAB14.1C.GIF row 1313 and 1314
1,000,000 and 10,000 to 2,000,000 and 100,000 Kurds were displaced and killed respectively between 1963 and 1987; 250,000 of them in 1977 and 1978. If deaths are proportional to the displacement then 2,500 to 12,500 Kurds would have died during this period depending on the scale of overall displacement and deaths used.
The following is a list of
massacres that have occurred in the area of modern
Iraq, and does not include
collateral damage, especially from
raids and
airstrikes, which were due to mistaken identity or unfortunately getting caught in the line of fire.
Kurdish members of the
Iraqi Communist Party target Turkmens leaving an estimated 20 dead. This was followed by Kurdish soldiers from the Fourth Brigade targeting Turkmen residential areas with mortars, causing the destruction of 120 homes. Between 31 and 79 Turkmen were killed with 130 wounded. The Iraqi government referred to the incident as a "massacre".
Iraqi authorities hanged 14 Iraqis for allegedly spying for Israel during a public execution in Baghdad; nine were Jewish, three were Muslim and two were Christian
The Iraqi military headed by Lieutenant Abdul Karim al-Jahayshee massacred 47 people in the Assyrian village of
Soriya (Ṣawriyā) including the Chaldean priest Ḥannā Yaʻqūb Qāshā and left 22 wounded.
February 5, 1977,
Safar uprising. Despite brutally enforced ban on public religiousness, thousands of people defy it and head to Karbala during the
Arba'een Pilgrimage. Hundreds were killed and thousands arrested by the regime.
March 16, 1988,
Halabja poison gas attack,
Halabja: 5,000+ deaths; Iraqi government used chemical weapons on Kurdish town; condemned as an act of genocide (The aforementioned Anfal genocide).
March 15, 2006, the
Ishaqi incident, where four women and five children, one aged five months were allegedly killed by U.S. Forces. This was denied by the Americans, who said a building collapsed during a firefight, killing four people—a suspect, two women and a child.[45]
March 2006, US troops killed 4 Iraq prisoners.[46]
Between May 7 and 8, 2006, 51 bodies were found in Baghdad, all handcuffed, blindfolded and shot in the head and abdomen.[47]
April 23, 2007,
2007 Mosul massacre,
Mosul; 23 died; the murders were considered to be a reprisal for the honor killing of a 17-year-old Yazidi girl.
On April 17, 2007, 51 bodies of Iraqi civilians and military personnel, who were killed in the previous two years, were found in Mahmudiya, south of Baghdad.
June 29, 2007, Al Ahamir Massacre, Al Ahamir, 10-14 Iraqi civilians were killed by Al Qaeda.
On June 30, 2007, 35 to 40 bodies were recovered from a recently dug mass grave in the town of Ferris, south of Fallujah, most likely victims of sectarian violence.
July 16, 2007, massacre of Shiite villagers in a village in Diyala province on by Sunni insurgents, 29 killed.[49]
April 4, 2010, insurgents dressed as US and Iraqi soldiers killed 25 people including 5 women in a village south of
Baghdad. They were linked to the
Awakening movement. They were handcuffed and shot in the head or chest. Seven were found alive in handcuffs. Major General Qassim Atta spokesman for the Iraqi security forces' Baghdad operations said
Al-Qaeda in Iraq was behind this.[50][51]
^Sykes, Percy (1934). "A summary of the history of the Assyrians in 'Iraq, 1918–1933". Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society. 21 (2): 255–268.
doi:
10.1080/03068373408725306. "At other villages batches of men were killed, the total number aggregating 550."
^Zubaida, S (July 2000).
"Contested nations: Iraq and the Assyrians"(PDF). Nations and Nationalism. 6 (3): 363–382.
doi:
10.1111/j.1354-5078.2000.00363.x. Retrieved 23 September 2011. The total number of Assyrian victims of these events was estimated by British officials at about 600, but Assyrian sources put it at several thousand.
^Llewellyn-Jones, Rosie (2019). "The Assyrians in World War One and the 1933 Massacre: New Discoveries in the Rsaa Archives". Asian Affairs. 50 (4): 569–587.
doi:
10.1080/03068374.2019.1672427.
S2CID211652462. "Nearly 1,000 men, women and children were killed by Iraqi armed forces – and their villages were looted by Kurdish tribesmen."
^
abRoutine calculations do not count as original research, provided there is consensus among editors that the result of the calculation is obvious, correct, and a meaningful reflection of the sources. Basic arithmetic, such as adding numbers, converting units, or calculating a person's age are some examples of routine calculations. See also Category:Conversion templates.https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.TAB14.1C.GIF row 1313 and 1314
1,000,000 and 10,000 to 2,000,000 and 100,000 Kurds were displaced and killed respectively between 1963 and 1987; 250,000 of them in 1977 and 1978. If deaths are proportional to the displacement then 2,500 to 12,500 Kurds would have died during this period depending on the scale of overall displacement and deaths used.