Kurds of Halabja - Iraq
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Dec 2004
Halabja has become synonymous with the brutality of Saddam's regime. But the suffering of its residents has not ended with the dictator's fall.
"Every time I breathe, I get pains in my chest. My eyes burn like fires," describes Aras Abid Akram. He will never forget what happened on 16 March 1988. As punishment for failing to resist Iran, Saddam ordered a three wave attack on Halabja. First the army fired mortars on the city. Then planes d
ropped napalm before the final attack of nerve and mustard gas. "Our skin began to itch horribly and became red," he recalls. Over 5,000 people were killed, including 42 members of Aras's family. Many of those who survived were scarred for life. Half the population suffers from breathing problems an
d the cancer rate is twice as high as the rest of the country. Children are born with cleft palates and other deformities.
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you sacrified for some of us to be free
will never forget the tears in your eyes
the tears you couldn't shed
the unhealing wounds & pains
the silence of merciless world
Exactly how the kurds feel about the war.
I think deadly gases are weapons of mass destruction.
arabs are fucking dark skinned ugly animals
i hope the kurds in iraq will reclaim their country and will unite with the persian brothers.