"Never Again??" The Kurdish Genocide in Iraq After the Holocaust occurred in Europe during the 1940s, the world promised that they would never again allow a case of genocide to go unnoticed for so long. Despite this firm statement, the Kurdish genocide in Iraq is an example of one of the four major genocides that took place during the second half of the twentieth century. The Kurdish genocide occurred in Iraq from 1987 to 1989. During this …showed first 75 words of 1898 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1898 total…Hussein thought that the Kurds were "a problem" and the international community was too cowardly to take a stand. Later, no huge effort was made to punish Iraq, instead the US helped Iraq to grow economically. All of the perpetrators were allowed to get away with their crimes against humanity--none have been punished. I would say that it is important for genocide as awful as this never to happen again, but that's been said before.