Desert - The Story of the Only Survivor of the Mass Graves in the Anfal Genocide

Anfal is an ethnic cleansing operation carried out by the Iraqi Baath regime between February 9 and September 6, 1988, consisting of eight moves. The choice of this name was intended to give religious legitimacy to the massacre and portray the Kurdish people as "infidels". In this genocide, 182 thousand civilians were gathered from the Germiyan region, taken to the deserts in the south of Iraq, massacred and buried in mass graves.

In this operation, which was a previously planned and thoroughly thought-out genocide, the area was blockaded by land and air, with the aim of ensuring that no one survived and that the massacre was kept secret. As a matter of fact, only five people survived this disaster. So far, the bodies of thousands of people have been identified and brought back to their homelands from mass graves in the deserts.

Teymur Abdullah Ahmet, whose real life story is told in this book, is one of the rare people who survived the rubble of thousands of villages burned during the Anfal massacre and the mass graves where people were buried alive, and as the only witness of the cruelty, he nakedly reveals one of the bloodiest atrocities experienced by humanity on the threshold of the twenty-first century. .