Muthanna Governor Apologizes to Kurdistan for Officer's Behavior Against Anfal Survivor

The governor of Iraq's Muthanna province, Ahmed Manfi Jawda, has apologized to the Kurdistan Region for the "discriminatory" actions by an Iraqi military officer against a Kurdish survivor of the Anfal campaign.

Special teams alongside a great number of survivors of Saddam al-Hussein's genocidal campaign of Anfal were camping in the desert areas of Muthanna in southern Iraq, where three mass grave of Kurdish victims have lately been discovered.

The Iraqi officer insulted the Kurdish survivor and forced him to remove the Kurdistan flag from his shoulders.

The governor of Muthanna pointed out that the officer's behavior towards the Kurdish civilian does not reflect Iraq's stance to the Kurdish nation, considering the action a violation and vowing legal procedures to be taken against the officer.

However, the military officer has by now been detained and an investigation has been launched into the issue, a Kurdish lawmaker in the Iraqi Parliament revealed in an online statement on his Facebook feed.

More than 182,000 Kurds, including women and children, were massacred by Saddam Hussein's regime in the 1980s as part of his genocidal Anfal campaign.