{"id":4687,"date":"2006-03-03T12:34:32","date_gmt":"2006-03-03T12:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4687"},"modified":"2025-09-25T14:43:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T14:43:00","slug":"at_the_genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4687","title":{"rendered":"At the genocide museum in Kurdistan"},"content":{"rendered":"

I picked up on this through a link on the Althouse weblog. It’s tough.<\/p>\n

The author is a free lance writer out of Portland, Oregon.<\/p>\n

Michael J. Totten: \u201cThe Head of the Snake\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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When you enter the museum you will walk through a long and winding hallway. The walls are covered with mirror shards. Each represents one of the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Kurds murdered in the genocidal Anfal campaign. A river of twinkling lights lines the ceiling. Each represents one of the five thousand villages destroyed by Saddam Hussein….<\/p>\n

The hardest thing to see was the cell used to hold children before they were murdered. My translator Alan read some of the messages carved into the wall.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was ten years old. But they changed my age to 18 for execution.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDear Mom and Dad. I am going to be executed by the Baath. I will not see you again.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I picked up on this through a link on the Althouse weblog. It’s tough. The author is a free lance writer out of Portland, Oregon. Michael J. Totten: \u201cThe Head of the Snake\u201d When you enter the museum you will walk through a long and winding hallway. The walls are covered with mirror shards. Each […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5621,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4687\/revisions\/5621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}