Victims of Saddam Hussein's poison gas attack on Halabja, March 1988

Turkish soldiers posing with the death Kurdish men and and their bodies have been mutilated by the soldiers.

"Art. 3. In the case of armed conflict not of an international character occurring in the territory of one of the High Contracting Parties, each Party to the conflict shall be bound to apply, as a minimum, the following provisions: (1) Persons taking no active part in the hostilities, including members of armed forces who have laid down their arms and those placed hors de combat by sickness, wounds, detention, or any other cause, shall in all circumstances be treated humanely, without any adverse distinction founded on race, colour, religion or faith, sex, birth or wealth, or any other similar criteria. To this end, the following acts are and shall remain prohibited at any time and in any place whatsoever with respect to the above-mentioned persons: (a) violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment and torture," UN, Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field, Geneva, 12 August 1949

Kurds in Iran face death by government firing squads

Kurdish Villages that have evacuated in Kurdistan by the security Forces.

Turkish security forces have evacuted more than 4 thousands Kurdish villages in South-East Turkey of Kurdish region.Some villages are surrounded by the Turkish army so as to deprive the inhabitants of their means of subsistence and thus force them to leave. When the village is surrounded, no villager can leave without authorization. Some are ordered to remain in their houses. Anyone disobeying the orders given for any reason is shot immediately. The encirclement of villages prevents villagers from working their fields and vines; they cannot milk or graze their herds. They are prohibited from buying provisions in town or sending anyone ill to a doctor. Village encirclement is a way of exerting psychological and economic pressure on villagers to leave". "UN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTSFiftieth session, 24 February 1994 Agenda item 11 (d) Encirclement and forced evacuation of villages in Turkish Kurdistan (1990-1993"