Today, she is an award-winning peace activist, but those distinctive memories of her early age become clearer with each passing day. She was just 10 years old when Saddam Hussein's Baath Regime took power in Iraq in 1979. Akreyi had already survived the Iraqi government offensive against the Kurds in the mid-1970s. She also lived through the Anfal genocidal campaign, when atrocities were committed against Kurdish civilians by the Iraqi government between 19 - the campaign was commissioned by Hussein to crush Kurdish resistance in northern Iraq in the last phase of the 1980-1988 Iraq-Iran War. The iconic Kurdish defender of human rights was born in Akre, not too far from Erbil in Iraq's southern Kurdistan. They still mark her life and her battles around the world.
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