The Iraq report was a milestone victory for Kurdistan Regional Government representation to the United Nations and its consistent efforts to highlight the suffering of the Kurdish people in Iraq during past years. The report covers the period from 4 September 2003 to 9 February 2004. By its resolution 2003/84, the Commission renewed the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iraq for another year and requested him to focus on newly available information about violations of human rights and international law by the government of Iraq over many years. However the Special Rapporteur has also received information on the overall situation of human rights including allegations regarding recent events in Iraq.

The Special Rapporteur occasionally has passed his deep appreciation to the hard work accomplished by Kurdistan Regional Government Representative to the United Nations to collect relevant information and investigate all cases submitted as well as to shed light on a very difficult period of time in Kurdistan. The Special Rapporteur is also very appreciative of KRG renewed efforts, together with the Minister of Human Rights in Kurdistan, to assist in identifying other witnesses or people with a particular knowledge of events like Halabja and other gross human rights violations which occurred in Kurdistan that they would wish to share with him. Since last year number of Kurdish delegations held several consultations with Special Rapporteur during periods December 2003 and February 2004 in Amman in his quality of UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iraq.

The Special Rapporteur has also consistently met with Regional Representative of Kurdistan to the United Nations at Geneva Mr. Dindar Zebari to discuss further with him practical arrangements for Kurdish delegations which met with the Special Rapporteur on Iraq. The Special Rapporteur is most grateful for the hard work that Human Rights Ministry, KRG representation at Geneva, and the various Kurdish committees have deployed during the last months in order to assist him in his delicate mandate to produce his final report for the commission of human rights sixtieth session agenda item 9 on the situation of human rights in Iraq.

In his successive report according to Regional Representation of Kurdistan to the United Nations at Geneva the Special Rapporteur included evidence on issues such as the Anfal campaign, executions and mass graves. There now according to UN Special Rapporteur exists documentary evidence inculpating the mastermind and chief executioner of these crimes, Ali Hassan Al-Majeed chemical Ali and proves the existence, at the highest governmental level of the criminal intent to mercilessly exterminate the Kurds and implant people of mainly Arab origin in their homes and villages, in a process that amounted to genocide.

Testimonies made available to the special Rapporteur by the Kurdistan regional representation proved that there was a deliberate and carefully carried out campaign to arrest, execute, relocate or deport Kurds, as well as other nationalities such as TurKmen, Assyrians and Chaldeans.