Makiya: Cruelty & Silence: The Iraqi Uprising & Its Aftermath (cloth): War, Tyranny, Uprising in the Arab World - Hardcover

Makiya, K

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 039303108X ISBN 13: 9780393031089

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co., 1993

Synopsis

In 1991, Kanan Makiya, author of the bestselling Republic of Fear, returned to Iraq to investigate allegations of mass murder. The results show that at least 100,000 noncombatant Kurds were killed in 1988 in an operation code-named Al-Anfal. This book is not a historical inquiry into why that happened; it is a passionate plea that the cruelty not be ignored and repeated.

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Review:

What Emile Zola did for French anti-Semitism and Arthur Koestler did for Soviet totalitarianism, Kanan Makiya now intends to do for Arab nationalism. Sweeping, impassioned, and perturbing.--Michael Massing

Bold and brilliant. . . . An indispensable book for anyone interested in the politics of the Middle East.--Abbas Milani

Synopsis:

Uses records captured from the Iraqi secret police to document Saddam Hussein's murder of at least one hundred thousand noncombatant Kurds in 1988.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 039303108X
• ISBN 13: 9780393031089
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368