MEMORIALS

Memorial Cemetery to Victims of Halabja Gas Attack

Type: Physical memorial
Location: Halabja
Country: Iraq

Added: 9/22/2005
Updated: 3/16/2014 11:54:05 AM

The Halabja Memorial Cemetery is the burial place for up to 5000 victims of the Halabja poison gas attack on 15 March-19 March 1988 during a major battle in the Iran-Iraq war when chemical weapons were used, allegedly by Iraqi government forces, to kill a number of people in the Iraqi Kurdish town of Halabja (population 80,000).

Most of the victims were buried in the local village cemetery. Memorial sculptures and monuments was later added to the memorial site.

Halabja is located about 150 miles northeast of Baghdad and 8-10 miles from the Iranian border. (1)

Most of the victims of the attack were buried in a the village cemetery in Halabja where also a memorial sculpture to commemorate the thousands that perished has been erected.

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POSTED BY JON BRUNBERG ON 9/22/2005