'Butcher of Kurds' faces judgment
-Kurds rejoice at Chemical Ali's capture, want him tried in
Halabja
Christine Gosden,
University of Liverpool, Professor of Medical Genetics
Topic: Iraq’s
Weapons of Mass Destruction.
3/27/2003: WASHINGTON, DC: 30 min.
Professor
Gosden discusses the medical and health consequences
of the use of Weapon of Mass
Destruction by the Iraqi regime against
the civilian population of Iraqi
Kurdistan in Halabja and 200 other
locations during the genocidal Anfal
campaign directly ordered by Saddam Hussein.
Video Link
The Forgotten
People
(Canadian CBC Program on Kurds and
chemical attacks on Halabja)
Link to this website
15 March
2003
President Bush Remembers Halabja
Where is Halabja?
Halabja is a small
town in the governorate of Sualimaniyah in Iraqi
Kurdistan.
It lies 250 km north-east of Baghdad
and 11 kilometers from the Iranian border.
What happened in Halabja?
On March 16th 1988, Iraqi
jets bombed the town of Halabja with chemical weapons.
At least 5,000 people were killed and 7,000
severely injured. Fourteen years on,
thousands are still suffering the affects of the
chemical weapons.
The gases used included mustard gas, nerve agents
sarin, tabun and VX.
This was the largest chemical attack on a civilian
population ever.
Pictures tell the story:
Slide Show
(Pictures in this slide show may
be disturbing)
Who was
responsible?
Iraqi forces under the command of Ali Hassan
Majid,
infamously known as Ali Chemical by the
Kurds,
were responsible for this despicable act of
inhumanity.
Reference Material on
Halabja:
Halabja: Symbol of Hussein's
Inhumanity
Why I Went, What I Saw, by Christine Gosden, Liverpool
University
Great Terror, by
Jeffery Goldberg, The New Yorker, March 2002
Anfal Campaign by KRG
Testimony of Dr Christine
Gosden, 1998 Congressional
Hearings
Anfal Campaign Maps
Experiment in evil
Lessons from Halabja
Still Suffering From '88 Gas Attack
More
info and pictures
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En flash film om folkmordet Halabja som ägde rum i södra Kurdistan
1988. Över 5000 människor dog inom en timme och fler än 7000 blev skadade.
