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Halabja

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Halabja
a Kurdish town in NE Iraq; in March 1998 Iraqi forces used poison gas on the population, killing hundreds of civilians. Pop.: 80 000 (latest est.)


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Security forces had arrested on December 3, 2009 three people in Khormal district in Halabja, southeast of Sulaimaniya, accused of terrorist acts," the department said in a statement received by Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
Terrorist sentenced to 15 years behind bars in Sulaimaniya by Aswat al-Iraq (Erbil, Iraq)
His torture, rape and murder of his own people was an abomination, but the genocide of Kurds at Halabja was probably his worst offence.
Is Blair the only one to blame for Iraq? VOICE OF THE NORTH by The Journal (Newcastle, England)
Summary: To this day, people from Halabja still suffer the aftereffects of the gas attack.
Iraqi Supreme Court: 460 foreign companies sold chemical weapons to ... by The Kurdish Globe (Erbil, Iraq)
 
 
 
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