Voigt on America – September 17, 2004 Saddam Hussein’s Genocidal Campaign against the Kurds Steven T. Voigt, Esq. Recently, I have spent considerable time reading about the horrible crimes committed by Saddam Hussein against his own people. As I study accounts of the years of terror under Saddam’s dictatorship, I am horrified and saddened. Saddam’s reign was terrible. Many people suffered from his evil acts, but the Kurds, a distinct people with their own language and culture who live in northern Iraq, were particularly brutalized. My thoughts and prayers go out to these people. They have lost so much, but...