Syria’s Hasakah commemorates 33rd anniversary of Halabja massacre
HASAKAH, Syria (North Press) – On the 33rd anniversary of the Halabja massacre in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, the people of Syria’s Hasakah held an event to commemorate the killings.
March 16 marks the 33nd anniversary of the massacre, when the Iraqi government led by Saddam Hussein killed at least 5,000 Kurds in Halabja in the southern part of the Kurdistan region, mostly women, children, and the elderly, with bombs and chemical weapons.
The coordinators of the northeast Syria-based women’s organization Kongra Star, and representatives of political parties and humanitarian organizations in the city of Hasakah, organized an event to commemorate the massacre.
The coordinator of Kongra Star Samia Serhan publicly read a statement saying, “On the sixteenth of March, a chemical bombardment was carried out on Halabja city by the chauvinist Ba’athist regime led by the former Iraqi president, the ousted dictator Saddam Hussein, who rose to represent the true face of the totalitarian and tyrannical regimes that shed blood everywhere in Iraq.”
“To confront authoritarian regimes, people in the Middle East and the world must unite under the umbrella of the democratic nation, far from all extremist, narrow-minded, nationalist, and sectarian thought, away from the exclusion of the other, and adhering to the principles of the moral systems of our society and to the dimensions of the ghost wars of genocide and massacres from the world and the Middle East region,” she concluded.