Even then, the marsh Arabs were not safe, he said.

Genocide now concerns the marsh Arabs: over half a million people destroyed in the last few years.

Only a few thousand of the nearly half million Marsh Arabs remain in the area.

In the 1950s, there were an estimated 500,000 Marsh Arabs.

The society of the Marsh Arabs was divided into two main groups by occupation.

The campaign left the Marsh Arabs, an ancient and unique culture, devastated.

The central concern is how to reintegrate the Marsh Arabs into the wetlands environment.

The province is traditionally home to many Marsh Arabs.

Even Saddam Hussein could not force the marsh Arabs, as they are known, to submit.

This directly affected the Marsh Arabs, forcing them to abandon the settlements in the region.