On
16 may,2025, Suliamanyah province,In presence of the Kurdistan parliament
MPs,secretary General Ministry of Peshmerga (MoPA), and representatives of
local CSOs. The KCIL in Joint efforts with Azadbun Organization and UOH-
Genocide Research Center at Halabja University, arranged public seminar under
the title of from the past atrocities to future prevention. At the outset, the
KCIL has delivered a speech on the KCIL
endeavours in domestication of international criminal law, and the KCIL
activities in the equipped judges and general prosecutors around key steps in
prosecuting international crimes. As well as disseminating international
humanitarian law within MoPA commanders, developing guidelines on legislative
process for the Kurdistan parliament besides drafting a bill on combating and
prosecution of international crimes. Subsequently, Dr.Sheraz Ebrahim, the KCIL
executive board member, and moderated the seminar highlighted that nowadays the
Kurdish legal community should be taking the essential measures within the
international criminal framework- now more than ever- to effectively prosecute
international crimes, and prevail over domestic judicial challenges in
prosecuting these crimes. The first topic of the seminar was delivered by Dr. Gurgen Petrossian : is a senior researcher and head of FAU’s
International Criminal Law Research Group on Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and
its legal consequences. Then, Dr. Mohammed Alewa Badrthe Director of the Northumbria International Criminal Law and Practice
LLM Programme,Inferred the intention behind the genocide. The concluding
topic was delivered by Dr. Sanar Taha, Legal Adviser, explained the policy of
extermination and genocide of the Failis Kurds by the Ba'ath regime. In the
end, trainers and participants agreed upon the importance of adopting a modern
legal overview to investigate international crimes and buil a constructive memory of genocide and crimes
against humanity, rather than relying soley on a self-sacrificial narrative of
past international crimes committed
against the Kurdish nation in the past and future.