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Halabja

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Halabja

Kurdish town near the Iran border in Sulaymaniyah province, northeast Iraq; population (2001 est) 105,000. In August 1988 international attention was focused on the town when Iraqi planes dropped poison gas, killing 5,000 of its inhabitants.



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What about the murdered Kurds of Halabja, the murdered Shi'i of the Kuwait war?
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