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“An early morning 34 years ago, the people of Halabja woke up to the smell of sweet apples in the air. None of them were aware of the disaster that would come from breathing in that sweet scent.
The Halabja chemical attack, also known as the Halabja Massacre or Bloody Friday, was a massacre against the Kurdish people that took place on March 16, 1988, during the closing days of the Iran-Iraq War in the Kurdish city of Halabja in Southern Kurdistan. The attack killed more than 5,000 people and injured 7,000 -10,000 more, most of them civilians. Thousands more died of complications, diseases, and birth defects in the years following the attack.
The incident, which has officially been defined by The Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal as a genocidal massacre against the Kurdish people of Iraq, was and still remains the largest chemical weapons attack directed against a civilian-populated area in history. The Halabja attack has been recognized as a distinct event of the Anfal Genocide conducted against the Kurdish people by the Iraqi regime under Saddam Hussein. The Iraqi High Criminal Court recognized the Halabja massacre as an act of genocide on March 1, 2010, a decision welcomed by the Kurdistan Regional Government. The attack was also condemned as a crime against humanity by the Parliament of Canada.”
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