Jiyan Foundation for Human Rights Press Release: There is growing evidence that the terrorist militia “Islamic State” (ISIS) has used mustard and chlorine gas against Kurdish fighters and civilians in Iraq. The Jiyan Foundation condemns the use of chemical weapons and stands in solidarity with the victims. ISIS terrorists recently attacked civilians with mustard gas…
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Category Archives: Halabja
Portsmouth’s Halabja Memorial Ceremony, 16 March 2016
By Judith Kerby & Brian Futcher: Wednesday, 16th March 2016 at 12.00 noon Ceremony held in the Garden of Hope, (D-Day Museum), Clarence Esplanade, Portsmouth PO5 3NT The Kurds have suffered many tragedies not least being 16th March 1988 when chemical bombs were dropped on Halabja, immediately killing 5,000 men, women and children and leaving thousands more destitute and…
The Weeping Snow
By Abdulkadir Saeed Sarchinary: Extracts from ‘The Weeping Snow’, a novel by Abdulkadir Saeed Sarchinary, translated by Yasin Aziz. This story is about the victims of the Halabja chemical attack. A child loses all his family and is taken to Esfahan, East Persia and grows up with a Persian family. After many years he goes…
A Few Days’ Life of Revolution in Halabja
By Yasin Aziz: Published on Amazon, 24th April 2015 This is the story of my generation’s experience from the time of the 1961 September (Aylul) Revolution. As a child in Halabja I witnessed most of what was happening when the Iraqi monarchy was overthrown, with the hope of a democratic government and equality for all…
Hoshyar Byawelaiy: A Global Volunteering Symbol
By Ausama Anwar: The 16th of March is a landmark in the history of Iraqi Kurdistan: it takes us back to the hellish chemical bombardments of the former dictatorial regime of Saddam Hussein on Halabja town. This attack left nearly 5000 civilian casualties with the complete destruction of the town. This date could never be…
The Wounds Have Not Healed: Commemorating the 1988 Chemical Attacks on Halabja
Jiyan Foundation for Human Rights Press Release: On the occasion of the 27th anniversary of the chemical attacks on Halabja, the Jiyan Foundation for Human Rights calls on the Iraqi government to provide victims with the much-needed medical and psychological care, financial assistance and rehabilitation they are entitled to. Amidst the current refugee and IDP…
Kurdish Exile’s Brief Thoughts on His Visit Back Home
By Yasin Aziz: This is my email to a British friend following my recent trip to the Kurdistan Region: Hi Judith, I am fine and my trip was nice to my beloved KRG . Even when I landed that morning at Slemani there was the IS terrorist attack around Kirkuk, and a few brave peshmarga lost…
Saddam’s poison gas – an ongoing contamination?
By Eric Bruneau: Khieli Hama is a Kurdish village on the Iranian border, close to Halabja, the Kurd’s martyr city where, on 16th March 1988, Saddam Hussein unleashed a chemical air attack killing 5000 people. In October 2013 the villagers of Khieli Hama tried to move bodies from a mass grave containing casualties of the…
The Halabja Bombing, 26th April 1974
By Yasin Aziz: Extracts from the novel, ‘A Few Days Life of Revolution in Halabja’, based on the real events of April 1974. This was an example of a crime against humanity, a crime of genocide committed by the Iraqi Ba’athist Regime, when it deliberately bombed a civilian population twice within three days. When four French-made Iraqi…
Life with the Bombs
By Nagham Haidar: Life with the Bombs is a photographic project about places and people after war and it aims to show the physical and psychological effects of the destruction of war and chemical bombs in the Kurdistan Region. The photographer Zardasht Osman has been working on the project for a year, researching places of…
The people of Kurdistan will never forget the massacres of Halabja, Dersim and Zilan
Statement by the Co-Presidency of the KCK: 26 years ago, on the 16th of March, thousands of Kurds were killed in Halabja, a city in South Kurdistan. Hereby, we vehemently condemn this inhumane massacre against the Kurdish people. What the fascist Saddam regime tried on Halabja was just another instance of Hitler’s fascism and the…
Halabja memorial ceremony, Portsmouth UK, Sunday 16th March
Date: Sunday March 16th Time: 11 am Place: The Garden of Hope, Clarence Parade, Southsea, Portsmouth PO5 3A Together with members of the Kurdish community we have invited to this year’s ceremony the Lord Mayor of Portsmouth, a local Member of Parliament, Councillors, friends and members of organisations such as the Red Cross and Amnesty…
KT news briefing, 13th March 2014
PUK MP: KRG’s public employee payment crisis will continue Kurdistan Parliament member Ezat Ismail, PUK fraction, has said that the Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) financial crisis will continue for years as government deficit is skyrocketing each year. The MP said that, even if Baghdad sends the money that’s due every month, the KRG still can’t…
Mexico shows solidarity with Kurdistan
KT News: An exhibition about the Halabja genocide will be added to Mexico’s Museum of Memory and Tolerance. An official told KT: “We are so proud to announce that Hanna Jaffa, Undersecretary of the Institutional Revolutionary Party in Mexico, has just got approval to add ‘Halabja Genocide’ for a four-month exhibition at the Museum of…
Petition to Congress: Vote to recognize the genocide against Kurds
Sign the Petition “I am writing to urge you to co-sponsor the bi-partisan legislation, H. Res. 422, recognizing the campaign of genocide against the Kurdish people in Iraq. It calls on the U.S. government to reaffirm the commitment of the House of Representatives to the friendship between the United States and the Kurdish people in…
