Commemoration of the 1988 Halabja Chemical Weapons Attack

Commemoration of the 1988 Halabja Chemical Weapons Attack

Commemoration of the 1988 Halabja Chemical Weapons Attack Every year on this day, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and the international community pause to solemnly remember the victims of the Halabja attack. On 16 March 1988, thousands of defenceless men, women and children were mercilessly killed in Halabja, Iraq, by the use of chemical weapons. Many more sustained horrific lifelong injuries and trauma. Nine yea…