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The Baghdad and Washington staffs are
engaged in a long-term effort to provide the
people of Iraq and the world a view of the
inner workings of the Ba'thist institutions
of repression and social control that
dominated all aspects of Iraqi life between
1968 and 2003. The Foundation is preserving,
digitizing, classifying and beginning to
analyze more than 11 million pages of
records in its holdings.
The current focus of the Documentation
Project is the acquisition, digitization,
and preservation of document collections.
However, considerable annotation work has
been undertaken on the older collections
(North Iraq and Kuwait), and new research is
continuous and forthcoming in the form of
monographs, research notes, and research
tools.
Among the holdings of the Iraq Memory
Foundation in document collections:
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Ba'th Regional Command
Collection (BRCC) |
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3 million pages (estimate);
digitization on-going,
annotation in planning stages,
selectively and restrictively
accessible—primary geographical
span: national; primary
chronological span: 1991-2003. A
large collection of documents of
various functions, the BRCC is
the record of reports and
correspondence at the
headquarters of the ruling Ba‘th
Party in Saddam’s Iraq. For a
detailed description of its
contents, please see the
attached “Overview and Actions
Required Report”. The BRCC is
the current focus of the efforts
of the Documentation Project
team at the IMF, both because of
its inherent importance as a
human-rights, academic, and
social depository of
information, and in recognition
of the precarious nature of the
conditions on the ground in
Baghdad. It is expected that
upon the completion of the
preliminary phases of
processing, the BRCC will yield
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2004 Secondary
Collection 2004SC) |
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Many
documents were acquired
by individuals and
organizations in the
aftermath of the fall of
the regime. However,
much of these came to be
viewed by their holders
as liabilities, rather
than assets. As a
result, many documents
were discarded or
destroyed. The Iraq
Memory Foundation is
engaged in an effort to
safeguard these
collections as a
national patrimony. Many
millions of pages of
such documents have so
far been rescued.
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The North Iraq Dataset (NIDS) |
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2.4 million pages;
digitized, annotated,
accessible— primary
geographical span: Northern
governorates; primary
chronological span: 1980s.
Consisting mainly of the
paperwork of security
agencies, NIDS provide a
rare inside view of the
system of oppression by
procedures put into
application by the regime,
against the backdrop of the
Iran-Iraq war, the Kurdish
insurgency, and the Anfal
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The Kuwait Dataset (KDS) |
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800,000 pages;
digitized, annotated,
restrictively accessible—
primary geographical span:
Iraqi-occupied Kuwait; primary
chronological span: 1990-91.
Gathered by the Coalition forces
upon the retreat of the Iraqi
military from Kuwait, KDS
provides in harrowing detail a
view of the treatment of the
civilian population as well as
the conduct of war. KDS is
particularly rich in content
underlining the human condition
of both Kuwaiti civilians and
Iraqi soldiers entrapped in
Saddam’s war.
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Topical Collections and Datasets
(TCD) |
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The Iraq Memory
Foundation has acquired a number
of important topical collections
and datasets with referenced
provenance. These are organized
individually. One such example:
1,336 pages. Digitized,
annotation in progress,
accessible—primary geographical
span: not applicable; primary
chronological span: 1991-2003.
This important dataset consists
of documents from the Ministry
of Information selected for
their importance by an insider
from the Saddam Husayn regime.
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Annotated Documents |
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The Iraq Memory
Foundations holds a number of
individual documents of
significant value.
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