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Mazher Xaleqi
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The Genocide Against The Kurdish People
Kurdistannetwork - March 16, 2009
Of all the crimes committed against the Kurdish People through history, Halabja has come to symbolize the worst repression of the Kurdish People. Halabja was a town of 70,000 people located in Southern Kurdistan (Iraqi Kurdistan) about 8-10 miles from the Iranian border. In 16 of March 1988 the town became a target of a chemical bomb attack over three days. During these three days, the Iraqi regime brutally attacked the town and the surrounding district with bombs, artillery and chemical bombs. The chemical weapons were the most destructive of them all. At least 5,000 of the town's inhabitants died immediately as the result of the chemical bombings and up to 12,000 people died during the course of those three days. The chemicals used involved mustard gas, nerve agent and possibly cyanide.
The town of Halabja was bombarded more than twenty times by warplanes of the Iraqi regime with both cluster and chemical bombs. In the streets and alleys of Halabja there were dead bodies piled up over one another. Children while playing in front of their houses in the morning were martyred instantly by the cyanide gases. The picture above is of the Kurdish father Omar Osman and his infant son who were among the victims of those crimes made by the Iraqi regime that day. That picture has become symbolic for that brutal and inhumane attach on the Kurds. It shows how the Kurdish father embraces his infant son trying to rescue the child from suffocating from the chemical gas but they both end up being martyred.
The world should not forget this day and especially not the Kurdish people. We shall learn from the genocides committed to any people living on this planet and prevent anything that could lead to another mass murder or genocide. Today Turkey and Iran are bombing villages in Southern Kurdistan and keep doing so with the silence nor any condemnation of the world leading powers. Have we still not learnt from our past? It is time for the world media to wake up and not let the Kurds be victims to another genocide.
We Kurds must also have a united voice and stance and not set a new path so that a new genocide can be committed on our people again.
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