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Massacre in Halabja was a proof of globald support for Saddam

Tehran (Defapress) - Iraqi airforce bombed Iraqi town of Halbaja by mustard gas in March 1988.

News ID: 83236

Date: 18 April 2021 - 03:02

The Halabja chemical attack also known as the Halabja Massacre or Bloody Friday, was a massacre of Kurdish people that took place on 16 March 1988, during the closing days of the Iran Iraq War in the Kurdish city of Halabja in Iraqi Kurdistan. The attack was part of the Al-Anfal Campaign in Kurdistan, as well as part of the Iraqi Army's attempt to repel the Iranian Operation Zafar 7. A United Nations (UN) medical investigation concluded that mustard gas was used in the attack, along with unidentified nerve agents.
The incident was the largest chemical weapons attack directed against a civilian-populated area in history, killing between 3,200 and 5,000 people and injuring 7,000 to 10,000 more, most of them civilians. Preliminary results from surveys of the affected region showed an increased rate of cancer and birth defects in the years afterward. The Halabja attack has been officially defined by the Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal as a genocidal massacre against the Kurdish people in Iraq under Saddam Hussein. The attack was also condemned as a crime against humanity by the Parliament of Canada. Ali Hassan al-Majid chemical Ali a high-ranking Iraqi official who led the Anfal campaign, was found guilty of ordering the attack and subsequently executed in 2010.