Topzawa Army Training Camp, called Topzawa Village 449 households is located 11 km away from a strategic area on the Hawija-Tikrit road. There are several other villages with the same name in many parts of Kurdistan. Tobzawa village was closed on 20-5-1987 after 20 days of warning. The villagers were all Kurds and a minority of six Turkmen families. After the transfer of Kurdish and Turkmen citizens, especially after the evacuation of the military base to collect the Anfal victims, the area became a military zone, Tobzawa to Yaichi, Dubak Tepa and Keywan villages…. There was no living, except soldiers and armed. Construction of the Tobzawa National Army Training Base began in 1979 on an area of 122 acres of land. It was completed in 1980 and became a national army training barracks Military training for the national army, military training of employees, students and others in the ranks of the Jaish al-Shaabi, which a large section of the population was forced to join by the government after the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq war.
“As a collection center for Anfal victims”
Tobzawa military base, which was used as the main collection center for Anfal victims in seven Anfal processes “one to seven” and Halabja prisoners, played the role of the Jewish genocide in Iraq. In addition to the collection center, Topzawa was also a place of investigation, separation and distribution, for the distribution and sending of victims to the barracks and mass graves, was the main distribution center for most of the seven Anfal processes. Later, Dubz prison became the distribution center for Nugra Salman and Tikrit, from where the Anfal victims were sent to the mass graves, although I think the Dubz military prison was a branch of the Dubz military prison.
Who were the first group of Anfal victims brought to Tobzawa? A woman born in 1955 in Garmian told the High Criminal Court: “We were riding a tractor with the people of Moha Baram village to Chachamal. We went to Qarkh village to the headquarters of the governor of Chachamal, on the day of the demonstration in Chamchamal, “it was said that the demonstration was held on the 11th of April. That same evening they took us to the Tobzawa barracks. When we arrived in Tobzawa, the halls were empty. We were the first group to be taken there and put in the cold halls. The next day, the young men of Sulaymaniyah brought those with us to the barracks. They were the first group sent to Dubz military prison on the same day.
