President of Iraqi Kurdistan urges to investigate the case of 18 girls sent to Egypt
Earlier, KRG’s Prime Minister, Nechirvan Barzani formed a committee to lunch a serious investigation on the cases of 18 Kurdish girls who were sold to Egypt’s sex clubs by Saddam’s regime during Anfal operation.
On Wednesday August, 7, officials of Kurdistan Regional government announced in a press conference their readiness to seriously investigate on the case of all 18 Kurdish girls who were sent to Egypt by former Baath regime during Anfal operation against Kurdish nation.
An Episode of an Egyptian series Niran Sadeeqa [Friendly Fire] that is aired on the Saudi channel MBC for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan has rekindled a public outrage among Kurds on social networks recently about the story of 18 Kurdish girls and women who were sent to Egypt by the Saddam Hussein regime to be forced into sex slavery about a quarter of a century ago.
Later local media reported the case of dozens of young girls who were seized by Iraqi soldiers during Saddam Hussein’s brutal campaign against the Kurds in his country have been found in Egypt.
Rudaw, a Kurdish news service, reported that the girls had seen sold by Iraqi intelligence and security officials to the Egyptians to work as prostitutes, sex slaves or as dancers in nightclubs, following the horrific anti-Kurdish Anfal campaign of the late 1980s. The girls are now women in their 40s and 50s.
A Kurdish businessman named Rushdi Saeed said he has video evidence purporting to show some 40 Kurdish women now living in Egypt.
“Some of these women are now married and have children,” Saeed told Rudaw. “And some of them live in villages and live on handouts from people. In the video these women speak about their families. Some of them also speak about how many of their family members were killed in the campaign.”
Barzani asked for a detailed investigation of their cases to see if the evidences match the claim.
