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Monument of Halabja Martyrs
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Monument of Halabja Martyrs

Michael J. Kelly, Paul R. Bartrop and Steven Leonard Jacobs
Modern Genocide: The Definitive Resource and Document Collection, Vol.3, pp.1605-1606
ABC-CLIO
2015

Abstract

Kurdish Genocide (1986-1989) Kurdish Genocide Genocide
The Monument of Halabja Martyrs was erected in 2002–2003 to commemorate the 5,000 dead and 10,000 wounded Kurds who were victims of the chemical gas attack on the town of Halabja by Saddam Hussein's forces in 1988.

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