16/03/2026
Today March 16th the 38th anniversary of the Halabja massacre against the Kurd's its families are seeking compensation.
On the 38th anniversary of the Halabja massacre, Kurdish leaders underlined that Baghdad must compensate the people of Kurdistan.
On March 16, 1988, the former Iraqi Ba’athist regime unleashed chemical gas over Halabja, resulting in the deaths of approximately 5,000 men, women, and children and leaving more than 10,000 individuals wounded.
“The crime of the chemical bombardment of Halabja was a very great injustice against the people of Kurdistan. Nowhere else in the world has a state committed genocide against its own citizens using chemical weapons, but in Iraq this great crime was carried out against the people of Kurdistan,” President Masoud Barzani said.
"Despite this brutal crime, there are still chauvinistic individuals in Iraq who oppose the rights of the people of Kurdistan. The crime of Halabja and all the crimes of the past are a historical and legal responsibility of Iraq, and it must compensate the people of Kurdistan.”