How bad could Iraq's genocide of the Kurds have gotten?

In the 1980s, the Iraq government killed an estimated 8% of the population of Iraqi Kurdistan in a campaign of genocide. Could they have realistically murdered a higher amount, and if so what would be the long-term ramifications in the Middle East?
 
Could they have realistically murdered a higher amount,
They could have murdered the Women,Children, and the Elderly they held captive but there no point in doing so as the whole point of the campaign was mean to crush Kurdish resistance which was already being accomplished by killing off the male population of fighting age.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anfal_genocide#Aftermath
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anfal_genocide#Concentration_camps_and_extermination

if so what would be the long-term ramifications in the Middle East?
Not much Kurdish forces will likely retake the areas during the 1991 Iraqi Uprising
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