Halabja Chemical Attack: A Never Ending Pain

Kurdistan 09:31 AM - 2025-03-16

Halabja Monument and the cemetery of the graves of the Halabja chemical attack victims.

Today, 16 March 2025, marks the 37th anniversary of the chemical attack on Halabja, which martyred 5,000 angels and injured thousands more, many of whom continue to suffer from their injuries.

On16 March 1988, the fallen Ba'ath regime bombarded Halabja, killing 5,000 people, including children, men, women, the old, and the young. Many were displaced to the Iranian border. Thousands continue to suffer from unhealed wounds and the grief of losing loved ones, while many more remain missing in search of families who may have been martyred.

The chemical attack on Halabja left many children orphaned, left many lone children, many families died, and even birds and animals saw their last day. No matter how much the tragedy is talked about, it is still not enough.

Ali Hassan al-Majid, also known as Chemical Ali, was the most prominent of the criminals who executed the Halabja crime. On 24 October 2010, he was sentenced to death by the Iraqi High Criminal Court.

The PUK is serving Halabja in practice

Halabja province currently has all of its own public departments, and this year, the Iraqi Council of Ministers declared 16 March as a public holiday in Iraq at the request of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK). However, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) refused to make the day a holiday.

Last year, at the request of a member of the PUK bloc in the Iraqi parliament, the Iraqi Prime Minister spent 2 billion dinars for the Halabja Gate project, which was completed this year.



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