Halabja Anniversary

Today marks 17 years since Saddam Hussein unleashed a poison gas attack against Kurdish villages in Halabja. An estimated 7,000 civilians were killed:

Halabja was bombarded with a concoction of chemical weapons which included mustard gas, and the nerve gases sarin, tabun and VX.  Five to seven thousand people of 80,000 inhabitants died immediately and a further 20,000 to 30,000 were injured, many severely... Inexpensive in terms of death per unit cost, there is evidence that these weapons were used in different combinations by Ba’ath forces attempting to discern their effectiveness as weapons of terror and war.

One parent recalls the gassing:

"I was running, filled with the giant strenghth of panic, with a child tucked under each arm. Behind us, our village was filling with the white clouds of gas. We only just got out. The gas was coming fast behind us and it was threatening to catch us. I turned round and I could see my wife running a little way behind me. She also had two children to carry. My wife's face was twisted in an expression which I do not like to remember. You see, we had five children, not four, but we could only carry two each. I shall never forget that small figure of my son, running along following me, reaching out his arms, begging me not to leave him. As God is my witness, I never loved him more than at that moment."

Three wars (Iran-Iraq, Gulf War I, Gulf War II), a strident debate over weapons of mass destruction, the arrest of Saddam Hussein, and seventeen years later, Halabja almost seems like ancient history. The human ability to move on and cope, even in the face of genocide, is a marvel.

We can either take satisfaction in the knowledge that Saddam Hussein can no longer gas thousands of civilians with impunity - or we can look at the world's inablility to stop the genocidal actions of Omar Al-Bashir in Sudan and wonder if history is repeating itself.

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