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1 A derisive Kurdish term for the National DefenseBattalions, the wordjahsh means "donkey foals."
2 "Saboteurs" is the term commonly applied bythe Iraqi regime to the Kurdishpeshmerga guerrillas and their civiliansympathizers.
3 As defined in the Convention on the Preventionand Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (hereinafter the Genocide Convention),78 UNTS 277, approved by GA Res. 2670 on December 9, 1948, entered intoforce January 12, 1951.
4 Raul Hilberg,The Destruction of the EuropeanJews (New York: Holmes and Meier, 1985 student edition), p.267.
5 While the Yezidis, a syncretic religious sect,are ethnic Kurds, the Assyrians and Chaldeans are a distinct ancient peoplein their own right.
6 Al-Majid has served variously over the pastfive years as Secretary General of the Ba'ath Party's Northern Bureau,Interior Minister, Governor of Iraqi-occupied Kuwait in 1990 and, as DefenseMinister.
7 Rural Kurdish men carry personal weaponsas matter of tradition, regardless of their politics.
8 Other mass graves have been found elsewherein Kurdish-controlled territory, containing the remains ofAmn executionsbefore, during and after the Anfal period.