Tag: Halabja

Kurds honor those slain in Saddam’s Halabja massacre

Vol. 84/No. 13 - April 6, 2020
Mass Kurdish uprising in Duhok, northern Iraq, in 1991. Three years earlier, Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein, with U.S. rulers’ help, used chemical weapons to massacre Kurds in Halabja.

Some 30 million Kurds across the Middle East have fought for their national rights and sovereignty, long denied them, by the rulers in Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey. Their fight has continued in the midst of the endless wars in…