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The Spindle and the Trench: A Story of Disappearance, Memory, and the Unfinished Business of Justice for Anfal

(The burial ceremony of 26 Hawraman residents who were buried alive on May 13, 1987. Their remains later discovered in a mass grave in 1995. Photo: Sabah Hamakhan) My father vanished on a Tuesday morning in May 1987, swallowed by a state machinery that had perfected the art of disappearance. I was one-year old, too young to hold the image of his face, but old enough for his absence to become the primary architecture of my life. For decades, he wa
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1001 Iraqi Thoughts broke the news on Thursday, May 21, 2026.
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