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Bookmark or Share- BBC ON THIS DAY | 16 | 1988: Thousands die in Halabja gas attack - BBC NewsThe attack on Halabja, which is about 150 miles (241km) north-east of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, is the latest in the Iran-Iraq war and follows its occupation by Iranian forces. Iraq was said to...
- Saddam's Chemical Weapons Campaign: Halabja, March 16, 1988Halabja helped Saddam Hussein gauge the ability of his chemical agents to kill, maim, and terrorize population centers. "Iraqi government troops would be surrounding the attack site and they would have chem-bio suits on...included would be doctors and interested observers...they would go in and find out how many people were dead...and how many ...
- Thirty years after the Halabja Genocide: Iraq Still Punishes the KurdsThirty years after the chemical attack, Halabja and its wounded survivors are still suffering from the aftermath. This suffering has been exacerbated by current Iraqi government’s psychological and economic warfare against Kurds.
- Remembering the Halabja Massacre - Voice of AmericaThirty years ago, on March 16, 1988, the regime of then-President of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, committed one of the worst atrocities of the modern era: the murder by poison gas of thousands of civilians in the Kurdish-Iraqi town of Halabja.
- Halabja - WikipediaHalabja (Kurdish: هەڵەبجە, romanized: Helebce, Arabic: حلبجة [3]) is a city in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and the capital of Halabja Governorate, located about 240 km (150 mi) northeast of Baghdad and 14 km (9 mi) from the Iranian border.
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