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HALABJA, Iraq (AFP) – Hundreds of Kurds gathered in the Iraqi town of Halabja last Saturday in a tearful ceremony commemorating Saddam Hussein’s poison gas attack there which killed some 5,000 people, mostly women and children. On March 16, 1988, SaddIraqi Kurds commemorate Halabja massacre
HALABJA, Iraq (AFP) – Hundreds of Kurds gathered in the Iraqi town of Halabja last Saturday in a tearful ceremony commemorating Saddam Hussein’s poison gas attack there which killed some 5,000 people, mostly women and children. On March 16, 1988, Saddam’s forces unleashed a cocktail of deadly gases on the northern farming community, captured a […] Read more