#halabja

Rejîma Baas ya dîktartorîya Saddam 36 sal berê 16’ê Adara 1988’an de li bajarê Helebce yê Başûrê Kurdistanê li hemberî kurdan komkujîyeke hovene pêk anî. Betirî 5 hezar Kurd bi çekên kîmyewî hatin qetil kirin û  bi hezara seqet man û cîhanê jî ev temaşe kir. Em wek Heyva Sor a Kurdistanê bi wesîleya 36’emîn salvegera komkujîya Helebceyê de  hemû şehidên vê komkujiyê bibîrtînin.

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Echoes of Halabja: A poem of Tragedy and Triumph — A poem by Me

In fair land of Kurdistan Where we lay our scene There lies a city Called Halabja serene

But on a day of woe A tyrant's wrath did reign And in his fury Thousands did he slay

A city so proud Woke up under a deadly cloud With poison gas so vile It silenced every other sound

The screams of the dying The cries of despair As they suffocated Unable to bear

Families torn apart With cries of fear and pain As their loved ones fell Like leaves in a hurricane

But we still remember We honour the dead The unforgotten victims Forever in our hearts etched

But in the end The tyrant finally fell And they were free once more To build their own story to tell

Now the serene city still stands A testament to their might A reminder of their struggle And a reminder of their fight

For freedom, and for liberation In fair Kurdistan, a new generation Will live in peace, and never more Experience the terrors of that fateful day of yore

We remember those who fell And the ones who went Their courage shone Even in their descent They fought with might Until the very last scent

victims of the halabja chemical attack, halabja, kurdistan, 1988 by mohamed eslami rad

on march 16th, 1988, then president of iraq, saddam hussein, attacked the kurdish town of halabja with chemical weapons, namely mustard gas and nerve agents. thousands of kurds succumbed to the gas and perished, with several thousand more sustaining serious injuries. the chemical attack remains the largest chemical weapons attack against a civilian population in history.

A powerful earthquake shook the Iran-Iraq border late Sunday, killing 207 people and injuring 1,686 in the mountainous region of Iran alone, Iranian state media said.

The Baghdad government did not immediately give word on casualties in that country, though Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi issued a directive for the country's civil defence teams and "related institutions" to respond to the natural disaster.

The magnitude 7.3 quake was centred 31 kilometres outside the eastern Iraqi city of Halabja, according to the most recent measurements from the U.S. Geological Survey. It struck at a depth of 23.2 kilometres, a shallow depth that can have broader damage. Magnitude 7 earthquakes on their own are capable of widespread, heavy damage.