Amna Suraka Museum (Red Security)
Sulaymaniyah
The former Ba'ath security headquarters and prison in Sulaymaniyah, converted in 2003 into a memorial museum for its victims.
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From 1979 to 1991 Amna Suraka was the northern headquarters of the Ba'ath regime's General Security Directorate, where Kurdish dissidents were imprisoned and tortured. It fell to the Peshmerga during the 1991 uprising and opened in 2003 as Iraq's first museum documenting Ba'ath-era crimes. Its Hall of Mirrors — 182,000 shards for the victims of the Anfal campaign and 4,500 lights for the destroyed villages — together with the preserved cells and bullet-scarred walls, make it one of the most moving sites in the region.