Jungle Baby of Borneo

26 May 2009

I went into a village in Iraq some years ago, and heard stories of how Saddam’s army came in, killed a lot of people and took all the pretty girls.  The pretty girls were never seen again.  I recall that the people of the village thought the girls had been sold and were still alive.  They didn’t know where, but the people thought their daughters and sisters might have ended up in the Middle East, or Africa.  Maybe there were records in Baghdad.  The villagers were very friendly to the American soldiers, and served us all a large meal.  Sometimes I still wonder what happened to those girls.

I don’t know if there is any truth to the following website, but I know that the villagers who told me about the missing girls seemed very credible to me, and to the American soldiers.

Kurdishmedia

Did he create a sensation by insisting that Egypt should come clean and investigate its criminal role in collaborating with Iraqi Ba’thists in trafficking innocent Anfaled Kurdish girls for brothels in Egypt? Even if this issue is no more than an allegation, isn’t it worth investigating? And who should follow up and raise this issue if not Kurdish leaders themselves? If you do not defend your dignity, people are right to think you are a people without dignity. But this issue is not in fact just an allegation. The names of 18 Kurdish girls between the ages 14 and 27 sold to Egyptians have been revealed in a secret Iraqi document. And the surviving members of their families have validated the names.

These are the names of the girls and women and their age:

– Galawej Adel Rahim (age 14)
– Chiman Nazim Abas (age 22)
– Leyla Abas Jawhar (age 21)
– Lamiah Nazim Omar (age 19)
– Bahman Shukir Mustafa (age 26)
– Khusaran Abdulla Tawfiq (age 20)
– Qadriya Ahmed Ibrahim (age 17)
– Golmalek Ibrahim Ali (age 19)
– Khawla Ahmed Fakhradeen (age 25)
– Esmat Kader Aziz (age 24)
– Najiba Hassan Ali (age 18)
– Hasiba Amin Ali (age 29)
– Shiler Hassan Ali (age 20)
– Shukriya Rustem Mohammad (age 27)
– Habiba Hidayat Ibrahim (age 15)
– Kuwestan Abas Maulud (age 26)
– Serwa Othman Karam (age 17)
– Suza Majeed (age 22)

Kurdishmedia.com which first published this news in English said the following about this issue on 11 August 2003:

“The document proves the Arab dimension of the Anfal campaign, thereby raising several questions which could place additional strain on Kurdish-Arab relations. Were other Arab states involved in the campaign and did they help to conceal the evidence?

Until these questions are answered to the satisfaction of the Kurdish people, Kurdish-Arab relations should be placed on hold.

Kurds should not deal with any Arab state, least of all with Egypt.”

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