Barzani Kurds

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The Barzani tribe (Kurdish: Hozî Barzanî) is the largest and most prominent Kurdish tribe in Iraqi Kurdistan.

The origin of the word 'Barzani' is connected by scholars to the ancient Hurrian god Barzani.[1]

In 1983, 8,000 members of the Kurdish Barzani tribe were captured by Saddam Hussein's forces and later executed and buried in mass graves in southern Iraq. About 500 bodies were exhumed from Samawa, and re-buried in Barzan.

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  1. ^ Michael C. Astour, "Semites and Hurrians in Northern Transtigris", in Studies on the civilization and culture of Nuzi and the Hurrians Volume 2, General studies and excavations at Nuzi 9/1, by D.I. Owen and M.A. Morrison (eds.), Winona Lake Indiana, Eisenbrauns, pp 1-66., 1987.


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