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Southern Kurdistan
This page is still under construction - we apologise for the huge gaps in information on this page. Halabja. Between April 1987 and May 1988, the Iraqi regime bombed over 200 villages and towns in Iraqi Kurdistan, exposing up to 250,000 people to the chemical and biological weapons. Thousands were killed and wounded before the biggest single incident in March 1988 when the city of Halbja was bombed, resulting in the immediate deaths of between 5,000 and 7,000 people with an estimated 30,000 wounded. In the years since the bombing, countless victims have died from the effects of the chemical and biological agents they were exposed to and the subsequent generation of children unborn at the time of the attack are now dying from the effects. The rate of miscarriages, still births and horrific birth deformities is extremely high, as are cancers and premature death amongst children, pregnant women and old people.The Halabja Post Graduate Medical Institute has been set up to provide medical aid to the victims of the chemical attacks, to determine what chemical and biological agents were used and their effects on the survivors and on the environment. It was created after a study conducted by Dr. Gosden in 1998 into the long-term effects suffered by the victims of the Iraqi gas attacks and with the help of the Washington Kurdish Institute.Please follow the link to find out how you can help this organisation which is providing such desperately needed help to the survivors of the greatest numbers of civilians ever to be bombarded with chemical and biological agents.
Landmines
Kurdistan in Iraq has faced an additional humanitarian disaster over the last decade due to the numbers of landmines scattered across the region.
Saddam - Will he ever be tried as a war criminal?
The US are again demanding that Saddam and his top officials be tried in an international court for war crimes. Similar tribunals were institute to try people from the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. Other officials who would be indicted with him include Tareq Aziz, the deputy foreign minister; and Uday and Qusay Hussein, Saddam's sons.
More information can be gained from the London-based campaign to try Saddam INDICT.