human rights watch

torsdag 15 mars 2018

We will never forgive those who kill our children the one who kills our nation. from Al-Anfal to Al-Fateh in the Quran The Koran just kills Kurdish children. Yesterday Halabja's genocide by Saddam Hussien regime,, today Efrin is the genocide by the Turkish regime




We will never forgive those who kill our children the one who kills our nation.
from Al-Anfal to Al-Fateh in the Quran (from Saddam  genocide to Erdogan  genocide and nuri haider)
The Koran just kills Kurdish children.
Yesterday Halabja's genocide by  Saddam Hussien  regime,, today Efrin is the genocide by the Turkish regime.  
It is a new Holocaust that goes on from Turkish against Kurdish people in the Middle East.
Turkish regime today uses European weapons against the Kurdish people in Efrin so it's a pure genocide against the Kurdish people,
30 years on, gas attack still poisons Iraqi Kurdistan’s Halabja


HALABJA, Iraq’s Kurdistan region,— As a teenager Kamal Jalal saw two of his sisters killed when Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s forces launched a gas attack on the Kurdish town of Halabja.
Now three decades later at the age of 47 this Iraqi Kurd remains reliant on a machine to help him breathe — and is still waiting for compensation over a massacre that became a byword for brutality.
“The doctors told me that I lost 75 percent of my lungs,” he told AFP as he sat in his small home just metres (yards) from a memorial overlooking the town.
The monument with a Kurdish flag on top commemorates some 5,000 Iraqi Kurds, mostly women and children, killed on March 16, 1988 when deadly gas was released on Halabja in the mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan (northeastern Iraq).
The attack from the skies came after ethnic Kurdish fighters who sided with Iran in the eight-year Iraq-Iran war withdrew from the rural farming town.
Like many of the thousands of people gassed in Halabja, Jalal was hopitalised in Iran, which lies just a dozen kilometres (seven miles) away.
For him — and others who got treatment in Europe paid for by Kurdish authorities — the recent fight against Islamic State jihadists that wracked the region meant they struggled to travel to get the care they need.
Struggle for compensation
The attack on Halabja marked the culmination of a ruthless campaign of retribution by Saddam against those seen as siding with Tehran as the devastating conflict between the two neighbours drew to a close.
The gruesome aftermath of the slaughter was captured by international journalists — but it would take decades for there to be some sort of reckoning.
After his ouster in the wake of the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, Saddam eventually faced trial for the killings of an estimated 180,000 in the Anfal campaign against the Kurds.
But he was hanged in 2006 on another conviction before a court could officially find him guilty of carrying out a “genocide” against the Kurds.
Four years later Saddam’s cousin General Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as “Chemical Ali”, was executed for ordering poisonous gas attacks, including against Halabja.
Back in Halabja Arass Abed is spearheading the fight by survivors for compensation.
The 48-year-old is the only member of his family to have survived the attack and founded an association representing victims and their loved ones.
“The Iraqi supreme court ruled that the chemical attack on Halabja was a war crime and genocide,” he told AFP.
“The government in Baghdad needs to compensate the victims and the town as a whole.”
Poisonous legacy
The local government of the autonomous Kurdistan region which controls Halabja did promise land for some 1,000 families impacted by the tragedy.
“Thirty years after the attack at least 200 families have still not received their land.”
Abderrahman Abderrahim lost 48 members of his family in the attack.
But the former enviroment minister in the Kurdish authorities says that day was only the beginning of the problems.
“Up until today there is still residue from the gas that spread over the city, unexploded shells can be found under the foundations of recently constructed buildings,” he said.

Worse, he adds, pollution has also spread to “fields around the town” which relies on agriculture as one of its main resources.
And the attack keeps on taking a toll on new generations.
“Every year in the census in Kurdistan, Halabja is the area where the largest number of cancer patients is registered”, he says.
“There are also a significant number of newborns with complications and birth defects.
When Saddam Hussein gassed 5,000 Iraqi Kurds at Halabja
HALABJA, Iraq’s Kurdistan region,—On March 16, 1988, as many as 5,000 Iraqi Kurds, mostly women and children, were killed when deadly gas was released on the northern town of Halabja by Saddam Hussein’s forces.
AFP remembers the massacre, believed to have been the worst-ever gas attack targeting civilians.
Circling planes
In the final months of the eight-year Iraq-Iran war, ethnic Kurdish fighters who sided with Iran capture the large farming town of Halabja in Iraq on March 15.
Home to more than 40,000 people, the town is in the Kurdistan region and just 11 kilometres (seven miles) from the Iran border, while 250 kilometres from the Iraqi capital.
Saddam’s army retaliates with artillery and air strikes. The Kurdish fighters and most of the town’s men withdraw to surrounding hills, leaving behind the children, women and elderly.
The following day, Iraqi fighter planes circle above the area for five hours, releasing a mixture of toxic gases.
No obvious injury
The slaughter is quickly revealed: the fighters who come down from the hills give the alert and foreign journalists are soon on the scene.
By March 23, the first images are broadcast on Iranian television. Corpses scatter the streets with no obvious sign of injury, although witnesses say later some had blood around their noses.
The cameras of journalists brought in by the Iranian army linger on the bodies of the children. The town is the victim of a chemical weapon attack, say the commentaries, using official Iranian explanations that accuse Iraq of responsibility.
A Belgian-Dutch team from Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), the first foreign medical mission to reach Halabja, confirms the use of mustard gas and probably of cyanide.
“Our conclusion is clear: the civilian population was gassed,” it says.
Nothing moves
An AFP special envoy, Michel Leclerq, describes the horror in a story filed on April 1.
“Not the slightest stir, not a cry, not a movement: Halabja … seems frozen, immobilised in a deep sleep, while canons thunder in the distance,” the report says.
The “houses remain standing, the stores are full” but “no soul lives here since Iraqi planes released their deadly poison”.
Many of the thousands who fled are in camps in Iran.
A French MSF team estimates the number of dead at 2,000-3,000. Teheran gives a toll of 5,000.
A Belgian toxicologist says in May that analysis shows that several gases were used including mustard gas and nerve agents.
He estimates that 3,800 people were killed and 10,000 poisoned.
Analysts say afterwards the attack may have been in revenge for the Kurdish fighters’ support of the Iranian army in the 1980-1988 war.

Former Iraqi General Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as “Chemical Ali”, 2001.
Photo: Iraqi TV/Ekurd.net
‘Chemical Ali’ hanged
Justice comes more than 20 years later when General Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as “Chemical Ali” for ordering poisonous gas attacks, is hanged in 2010.
A cousin of Saddam, he is found by the courts to have ordered the attack on Halabja.
He gets four death sentences, including for Halabja, but insists he acted in the interests of Iraqi security and expresses no remorse.
In 2012, the Iraqi government hands Halabja authorities the rope used in his hanging.
Saddam is hanged in 2006 for another atrocity, closing various investigations under away against him, including for genocide of the Kurds.
Foreign Policy magazine reveals in 2013 that the United States provided Iraq with intelligence on preparations for an Iranian offensive during the war knowing Baghdad would respond with chemical weapons.
“The Iraqis never told us that they intended to use nerve gas. They didn’t have to. We already knew,” said retired Air Force colonel Rick Francona, a military attache in Baghdad during the 1988 attack.
Iraqi Genocide against Kurd in Halabja in 16 March 1988 by Saddam Hussein and his Chemical Ali cousin when Iraqi planes bombed the Kurdish city of Halabja with Chemical Weapones resulted in 5000 Kurds were suffocated by Poison gases along with 10 000 s of burnt or blinded by Mustard gases.. Saddam and His cousin finally paid for the crimes they commited when they were captured, executed and sent to hell.
 respective author or news agency, AFP

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