After a long battle with illness, Zaman Abda, a prominent writer and activist on the Anfal and genocide of the Kurdish people, has died.
On the morning of Thursday, 22 October 2026, prominent genocide writer and activist Zaman Abda died after a long battle with illness.
The deceased was one of the devoted and pioneering advocates of the Anfal case and the victims of the genocide of the people of Kurdistan. For the past 35 years, he had consistently regarded the plight of the victims and the suffering of the Anfal survivors as his duty and responsibility, and was a courageous voice for that case.







