Amna Swr Museum

This museum is located in Slemani, North of Iraq. Here many people that were involved with politics or was a peshmarga (what a peshmarga is; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peshmerga ) where caught and tortured for the Baath's regime to find out more information on where the other peshmarga's were. In this video it shows some of the forms of torture that was used at the time. This continued until 5th March 1991 where the Kurdish revolution occurred in which the Baath's regime were defeated.
Also the people that were most important to the Baath's were sent to Baghdad to be killed. Many people under this regime died of the kind of tortures that they used.




This is what the museum looked like inside: 

This photo shows another form of torture that the Baath's regime used on the Kurdish prisoners. Here they would handcuff the prisoner on the stairs in a way that they couldn't lift their head up or move their  legs. The aim of this torture was for anyone of the Baath's people that went past would swear at the prisoner, spit on them, kick them, pull their hair and many other forms. 

This statue is made of a famous man that was a peshmarga, he had connection with the others. When he was caught, he was put into a cell of his own and their was a tiny window where every morning when the sun raised he would sing that kurdish national anthem. He was later taken to another prison in Baghdad and was killed. The most important people to the Baath's regime would be taken to Baghdad for further questioning then they were killed by a dozen of Baath's people.  

This is what the windows looked like. In a shared cell there would be up to 50 people in a small room with this much light and air. 

These photos where placed in the museum where thousands of these were put into 5 and more rooms. Each of those photos had their own story and meaning. But unfortunately I can't post all those photos on here. 

The below photo is a sample of mud that was taken when the people of Slemani city ran away to the mountains as their was news spreading that Saddam Hussein will use chemical bombs on this city just like the Halabja city. We can see hand prints, finger prints and foot prints. 

This photo shows that the prisoners in the cells wrote their names and the date of when they were in their. This prisoner has written the date '26/8/1989'. In the many cells their were many of them but the most clearest one was this one.