Gardi 's mother fled the Kurdish region of Iraq when her village was attacked by chemical weapons during the Kurdish Genocide . Gardi 's grandmother and two aunties were killed in that attack by Saddam Hussein 's Ba'ath regime . Gardi 's father is originally from the Kurdish region of Turkey and fled to Iran due to oppressive treatment by the Turkish Government . While fleeing across the Iran-Pakistan border , Gardi and her family were saved by the actions of a border guard , who chose not to report them hiding in the truck they were being smuggled in
Kurdish Genocide
Anfal genocide
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