Halabja Event

Halabja: Remembering the Forgotten Victims

Presented by the Simon Wiesenthal Center Museum of Tolerance in collaboration with the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq.

The exhibit was created for a special commemorative program at the United Nations, March 16, 2009.

The Halabja poison gas attack took place on March 16, 1988, during the closing days of the Iran-Iraq War, when chemical weapons were used by the Iraqi government forces in the Kurdish town of Halabja in Iraqi Kurdistan.

The genocidal attack quickly killed about 5,000 thousand people and injured around 11,000, most of them civilians, including women and children; thousands more died of complications, diseases, and birth defects in the years after the attack. The event is the largest chemical weapons attack directed against a civilian-populated area in history.

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