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A 10 page paper. In March 1988, the Kurdish city of Halabja in Iraq was brutally attacked (by Iraqi military) with chemical bombs as well as with artillery and cluster bombs. It was not the first chemical attack against a Kurd village but it was the worst. This essay reports what happened and the subsequent denial of the event. The writer also discusses the failure of the international community to react. The essay also discusses what could be done to prevent future genocide events. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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10 pages (~225 words per page)
File: MM12_PGklbja.rtf
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It is a lush area of forest vegetation (Atroushi, 2006). Its population of about 70,000 people are mostly cattle breeders or farmers (Atroushi, 2006). That is, until March 16..
In the morning of March 16, 1988, Saddam Hussein brutally attacked the town with poison gas (Atroushi, 2006). It was part of the al-Anfal campaign in which Saddam repressed Kurdish
revolts during the Iran-Iraq war, a war in its eighth year (Atroushi, 2006). It was not the only attack against villages, it was not even the only attack using
chemical weapons, but it was the worst (Atroushi, 2006). For three days, villagers were subjected to bombs, artillery fire and chemicals (Atroushi, 2006). Halabja and the surrounding district, such as
Khormal, were shelled with chemical bombs containing "mustard gas and the nerve agents sarin, tabun, and VX" (Atroushi, 2006). One estimate said that 5,000 people died immediately, 70 percent of
whom were women and children and it was estimated another 12,000 died over the three days of the brutal attack (Atroushi, 2006). Iraqi helicopters and fighter jets attacked the town
with chemical and cluster bombs more than 20 times over the three days beginning in the very early hours of March 17 (Atroushi, 2006). Bodies were everywhere, on the streets,
in the alleys, in homes, in their own beds (Atroushi, 2006). Kaveh Golestan, an Iranian photographer, described the scene: "It was life frozen. Life had stopped, like watching a
film and suddenly it hangs on one frame. It was a new kind of death to me. You went into a room, a kitchen and you saw the body of
a woman holding a knife where she had been cutting a carrot (Wikipedia, 2006). Kaveh was with a military helicopter about 8 kilometers from Halabja when the bombs first
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