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A memorial to mark the 1988 Halabja massacre in Iraqi Kurdistan
KURDISH officials warned that the genocidal attacks of Saddam Hussein’s brutal Ba’athist regime are being continued today by the Turkish state as they marked the anniversary of the 1988 Halabja massacre.
March is a month of “sorrow, struggle and uprisings,” the Kurdistan National Congress (KNK) said in a statement today as commemorations were held across the region.
“In the city of Halabja, the dictator and fascist Saddam dictatorship used chemical weapons to kill almost 5,000 people, including children, women and the elderly.
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