NEW : 25 years after Halabja: Sampler of recent new Documents & Research about the Mega-crime (CLICK ITEMS FOR FULL TEXTS)

MESOP 5.4.2013 – The Halabja Genocide killed around 5,000 men, women, children, and elders; injured more than 10,000; thousands still missing; thousands more died later of complications, diseases, and birth defects in the years later. Those residents who survived suffered from a higher percentage of medical disorders such as miscarriages (14 times higher), colon cancer (10 times higher), other cancers, respiratory ailments, skin and eye problems, and fertility and reproductive disorders compared with the rest of the country. The chemical attacks have a lasting genetic impact (which some believe this being the main objective) on the Kurdish population and that is evident through major birth defects in the cities attacked.

Below is a round up of recent news items marking the genocide:

• UNPO: Conference – 25th Anniversary of the Halabja Massacre: Recognition as a Tool to Prevent Genocide

• 25 Years After Worst Chemical-Weapon Massacre In History, Saddam Hussein’s Attack On Halabja in Iraq, The City Is Reborn

• Hundreds of Kurds in Halabja still suffer from Saddam’s poison attack

• Halabja witness tells about Saddam’s poison gas attack

• Efforts for recognition of Kurdish genocide by US Congress

• Video to launch on 25th anniversary of Halabja, sheds light on meaning of ‘genocide’ for Kurds

• Hundreds of people joined in sombre commemorations for the 25th anniversary of Saddam Hussein’s gassing of thousands of Kurds in the town of Halabja

• Kurdish town marks 25 years since deadly gas attack

• The lesson from Halabja is that slaughter must be stopped

• 25 years on, Halabja should not be forgotten

• 25th anniversary of Kurdish genocide holds lessons to prevent atrocities in Syria today

• Leicester community gathers to mark 25th anniversary of genocide

• UNPO To Visit Erbil To Commemorate Kurdish Genocide

• Kurds welcome British genocide statement