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Anniversary of Kurdish town poison gas attack

Kawah | 16.03.2012 15:27 | Anti-Nuclear | Iraq | Terror War | Birmingham | World

A genocidal massacre against the Kurdish people that took place on March 16, 1988, during the closing days of the Iran–Iraq War, when chemical weapons were used by the Iraqi government forces in the Kurdish town of Halabja in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Kurdish massacare
Kurdish massacare

Operational Anfal against innocent people
Operational Anfal against innocent people

anniversiary of Chimical attack
anniversiary of Chimical attack


The attack killed more than 5,000 people, and injured around 7,000 to 10,000 more, most of them civilians;
also,
During this Attack about 100 Members of Armed kurdish- Left Group [ Kumala ] got trapped and killed.

thousands more died of complications, diseases, and birth defects in the years after the attack. The incident, which has been officially defined as an act of genocide against the Kurdish people in Iraq,[4] was and still remains the largest chemical weapons attack directed against a civilian-populated area in history

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