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Peshmarga
During Ba’athist times, this building was a centre for the (Construction Security) now it’s turned into a Museum of Kurdish Freedom Fighters.
JAILS AND TORTURE
During Ba’athist times, this building was specified for the basic purpose of this horrible establishment. The first floor was a centre for interrogating detainees. Parallel to this one, two other floors were designed to keep the detainees according to various categories: Men, women and children were kept in differ- ent rooms. Moreover, there were solitary cells and torturing isolated places which are kept the way they were. This building is the main memorial part of the Amna Suraka.
EXODUS
This building consists of two floors. Each floor has four spacious halls. They were all previously used as dormitories for the secu- rity staff. The first hall of the first floor is used as museum / exhibitionof the great Exodus of 1991. The secondary halls of both floors are now functioning as cinemas to show docu- mentary films and places for artistic activities. While the third halls in both floorshave been turned into an Anfal Museum, the fourth hall on the first floor is now an Archive Centre. The first hall on the second floor is used to show the different types of land mines that have been planted in Kurdistan, as well as the bombs used by different artilleries to destroy our land.
MIRRORS HALL
During the time of the Ba’athists, this building was the headquarters of the security officers. It consists of two floors. The corri- dor on the first floor, which was used by the officers to have access to the rooms, is turned into a symbol of Anfal Operations and the Destroyed Villages perpetrated by the regime. The 182,000 pieces of broken mirror fixed to the wall symbolize the number of the victims exterminated during the Anfal Campaign, while the 4,500 small electrical light bulbs symbolize the number of Kurdish villages destroyed by the now overthrown regime
MARTYRS OF ISIS WAR
This building consists of two floors. Each floor has four spacious halls. They were all previously used as dormitories for the secu- rity staff. The first hall of the first floor is used as museum / exhibitionof the great Exodus of 1991. The secondary halls of both floors are now functioning as cinemas to show docu- mentary films and places for artistic activities. While the third halls in both floorshave been turned into an Anfal Museum, the fourth hall on the first floor is now an Archive Centre. The first hall on the second floor is used to show the different types of land mines that have been planted in Kurdistan, as well as the bombs used by different artilleries to destroy our land.
HERITAGE
During Ba’athist times, this building was a center for con- trolling the security operations performed to watch the activi- ties of the citizens and monitor the whole publications issued in Sulaimanya. This has now been turned into a Moreover, this build- ing saw an active role in working to erase the Kurdish National Identity and to distort their culture, not to forget that the main duty of this horrifying fort (which is known locally as Amna Suraka) was torturing and killing the inhab- itants of the city and of the entire Sulaimanya Governorate.
Yilmaz Guney Cinema Hall
This building consists of two floors. Each floor has four spacious halls. They were all previously used as dormitories for the secu- rity staff. The first hall of the first floor is used as museum / exhibitionof the great Exodus of 1991. The secondary halls of both floors are now functioning as cinemas to show docu- mentary films and places for artistic activities. While the third halls in both floorshave been turned into an Anfal Museum, the fourth hall on the first floor is now an Archive Centre. The first hall on the second floor is used to show the different types of land mines that have been planted in Kurdistan, as well as the bombs used by different artilleries to destroy our land.
Mine Hall
During Ba’athist times, this building was a center for con- trolling the security operations performed to watch the activi- ties of the citizens and monitor the whole publications issued in Sulaimanya. This has now been turned into a Moreover, this build- ing saw an active role in working to erase the Kurdish National Identity and to distort their culture, not to forget that the main duty of this horrifying fort (which is known locally as Amna Suraka) was torturing and killing the inhab- itants of the city and of the entire Sulaimanya Governorate.
Resistance
This building consists of two floors. Each floor has four spacious halls. They were all previously used as dormitories for the secu- rity staff. The first hall of the first floor is used as museum / exhibitionof the great Exodus of 1991. The secondary halls of both floors are now functioning as cinemas to show docu- mentary films and places for artistic activities. While the third halls in both floorshave been turned into an Anfal Museum, the fourth hall on the first floor is now an Archive Centre. The first hall on the second floor is used to show the different types of land mines that have been planted in Kurdistan, as well as the bombs used by different artilleries to destroy our land.
Amnasuraka Exhibition Gallery
During the time of Ba’athists, this garage was specified for the cars of officers and other staff, now it’s turned into an exhibition-hall for paintings and other educational and cul- tural projects.
Amnasuraka NetCafe
During the time of the overthrown Ba’ath Regime, this place was a mess for the security staff. Now days it’s used for multi-cultural activities such an access to internet, attend- ing musical, poetic and educational seminars; several artists, poets, writers, authors and other enlightening figures of the society take part in these occasions.
