Halabja Massacre

Family Graves for Victims of 1988 Chemical Attack - Halabja - Kurdistan - Iraq

Ferhad Shakely is reading one of his poems during a remembrance of Halabja in AF-borgen in Lund, 16 March 2011.

Guide (Bakhtiar Awmar) Shows Contemporary Photo of Victims of 1988 Chemical Attack - Outside Doorway Where Their Bodies Were Found - Halabja - Kurdistan - Iraq

Guide (Nabaz Mohamad) Shows Contemporary Photograph from 1988 Chemical Attack along Road to Iranian Border - As We Drive the Road - Outside Halabja - Kurdistan - Iraq
Kurdistan monument

Halabja Kurdish Genocide Memorial. We Remember Halabja. 16th May 1988 when 5000 men, women and children were killed by chemical bombs and the programme of genocide against the Kurdish people which killed a total of 182,000. May God forgive but let us never forget.
Ravayat-e Fath, Season 5, Episode 2

Housing and treatment, at Iran Khodro sports complex, of those wounded in Iraq’s chemical attack on Halabja, April 1988

Iraq, Halabja, March 17, 1988 – effects of the Iraqi military’s gas attack on civilians of Halabja
Historical Overview
Use of chemical weapons against Kurdish population.
Quick Facts
Iraq (Air Force)
- Commander: Ali Hassan al-Madschid
- Strength: 8 Flugzeuge
- Casualties: 0
Kurdish Civilians
- Commander: -
- Strength: -
- Casualties: ca. 5.000
Strategic Context
Punishment for collaboration with Iran.
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Historical Locations
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