In which campaign was al-Majid involved that resulted in his nickname?
The al-Anfal campaign
The Gulf War
The Iran-Iraq War
The Kurdish Civil War
Answer
Al-Anfal was a military campaign conducted by Iraq in the late 1980s during the Iran–Iraq War. The campaign was named after a sura in the Quran, and it was intended to destroy the Kurdish insurgency in northern Iraq. The campaign resulted in the deaths of thousands of Kurdish civilians, and it has been described as a genocide.
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