The following morning at the repatriation ceremony James Williams II, Dean of the Libraries, in his introductory remarks, spoke of the first ever restitution of Iraqi secret police files to the people of Iraqi Kurdistan. The title of their talk, “The Future of the Kurds and Iraq: Confronting the Threat of ISIS,” attracted a large audience and lively discussion with the delegates One of the high points of their campus visit involved a public lecture by the delegates on the evening of 29 October 2014 in Butcher Auditorium, hosted by the university’s Conference on World Affairs. In the seminars, the delegates explored topics such as revolution and political violence, the politics of ethnicity and nationalism, and state building in the 21 st century. In addition to attending the repatriation ceremony, the three member delegation was invited to visit a number of class seminars on 29 and 30 September University of Colorado at Boulder Program Ferdinand Hennerbichler who mediated the repatriation agreement between CU-Boulder and Iraqi Kurdish officials.Ģ. The third member of the Iraqi Kurdish delegation included Prof. The incumbent Governor of Sulaimaniyah, Bahroz Muhammed Salih Faqe Rasheed, designated Woshiar Rasul Mohammed Amin, an adviser and former representative from a Kurdish Democratic Islamic Movement in the Sulaimaniyah Provincial Council, to attend the official repatriation event at CU-Boulder. Salih, former Vice Premier of Iraq and head of the government of the Kurdistan region, joined the ceremony live via Skype from Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan region in Iraq.
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Wahbi, the international representative of the Zheen Archive Center located in Sulaimaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan. Distefano handed over an external hard drive containing the digital Iraqi Secret Police files to Ako M. The Dean of the Libraries James Williams II moderated the event. Montgomery, Director of Archives and Special Collections. It was attended by campus administrators, faculty, staff members, and guests of various disciplines and departments at UCB, among them Professor Bruce P. The repatriation ceremony was held on September 30, 2014, in the British Studies Room on the fifth floor of Norlin Library at the University of Colorado-Boulder (CU-Boulder) between 9:30 and 10:00 a.m. Kurds, Iraq, Saddam-Hussein-Regime, Kurdish Genozide, Secret Police Files Former Torture Center Sulaimaniyah, U.S.-Digitalized Documents at UC-Boulder, Restitution to the Iraqi Kurds The repatriated archive will be used to further reconciliation and democratization of the Kurdistan region and Iraq as a whole. On September 30, 2014, in a formal high-level ceremony at CU-Boulder, a copy of the digital Iraqi secret police files was handed over to a visiting Kurdish delegation representing the Zheen Archive Center in Sulaimaniyah, which assumed custody of the files, and the regional government in Iraqi Kurdistan. Bruce P Montgomery, director of the CU-Boulder Archives, commenced nearly two years of negotiations with the aim of restoring this archive of atrocity to the Iraqi Kurdish people. Ferdinand Hennerbichler, an Austrian historian and former diplomat, and Prof. The files were thereafter made available to researchers and investigators from around the world searching for evidence to bring Saddam Hussein and his senior leadership to justice for grave violations of international humanitarian law. and their scanning by the Defense Intelligence Agency, both a copy of these digital documents and the original files were acquired by the Archives at the University of Colorado-Boulder (CU-Boulder) in 1997. Following the military transport of the documents to the U.S.
More than twenty years after Kurdish forces captured mass quantities of Iraqi secret police files chronicling the Anfal genocide and other events in their March 1991 uprising, a digital copy of these documents has been repatriated to Iraqi Kurdistan.
Received 15 January 2015 accepted 5 February 2015 published 10 February 2015
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This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). 1The Presidency, Kurdology Center, University of Sulaimani, Kurdistan Region, IraqĢDirector Archives & Special Collections, University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado, USAĮmail: © 2015 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc.
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