#Halabja

[kurdistania]

Echoes of Halabja: A poem of Tragedy and Triumph

Echoes of Halabja: A poem of Tragedy and Triumph — A poem by Me

In fair land of Kurdistan Where we lay our scene There lies a city Called Halabja serene

But on a day of woe A tyrant's wrath did reign And in his fury Thousands did he slay

A city so proud Woke up under a deadly cloud With poison gas so vile It silenced every other sound

The screams of the dying The cries of despair As they suffocated Unable to bear

Families torn apart With cries of fear and pain As their loved ones fell Like leaves in a hurricane

But we still remember We honour the dead The unforgotten victims Forever in our hearts etched

But in the end The tyrant finally fell And they were free once more To build their own story to tell

Now the serene city still stands A testament to their might A reminder of their struggle And a reminder of their fight

For freedom, and for liberation In fair Kurdistan, a new generation Will live in peace, and never more Experience the terrors of that fateful day of yore

We remember those who fell And the ones who went Their courage shone Even in their descent They fought with might Until the very last scent

Mountains tall and rivers wide A land where culture and history collide Upon the plains of Kurdistan Lies Halabja, Serene and grand

[lephenixkurde]

Merci à Kurdistan Au féminin pour le relais.

Effectivement, le génocide kurde a frappé au Sud, mais aussi au nord, à l'ouest et à l'est du Kurdistan divisé en en quatre le 24 juillet 1923 par les vainqueurs de la Première Guerre mondiale, lors du Traité de Lausanne.

Impossible pour une personne seule aidée de quelques amis d'enquêter sur un génocide à aussi grande échelle, raison pour laquelle j'ai circonscrit le périmètre de mes investigations à Bashur.

J'ai fait ma part. D'autres travaillent sur d'autres terrains. C'est à nous tous de nous battre collectivement, livres et stylos à la main, pour qu'un jour le monde accepte l'évidence et reconnaisse enfin officiellement le génocide kurde.

Pour cela, il faut lire ce livre et d'autres, il faut partager nos travaux. Et faire connaître le témoignage des victimes qui ont aussi besoin de cette reconnaissance pour se reconstruire et honorer la mémoire des disparus.

Merci pour elles, merci pour eux.

https://kurdistan-au-feminin.fr/2023/08/18/un-genocide-oublie-la-voix-brisee-du-peuple-kurde/

[kurddigital]

Every time is tea time 🫖☕🗻 📸 @ako._.akoy کاک سەلام ‏ ⁧‫#العراق‬⁩ ⁧‫#أربیل‬⁩ ⁦‪#sulymanya‬⁩ ⁧‫#سلێمانی‬⁩ ⁦‪#slemani‬⁩ ⁦‪#Duhok‬⁩ ⁦‪#kurdistan‬⁩ ⁦‪#erbil‬⁩ ⁦‪#iraq‬⁩ ⁦‪#kurddigital‬⁩ ⁦‪#hawler‬⁩ ⁧‫#کوردستان‬⁩ ⁧‫#دهۆک‬⁩ ⁦‪#dhok‬⁩ #Kurd #zaxo #halabja #bakur #bashur #rojhalat #rojava #twitterkurds #kurddigital #2023 #زاخۆ #هەولێر #کۆیە #بەسرە https://www.instagram.com/p/CnHRiYnDQP9/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[heyvasorakurdistane]

Rejîma Baas ya dîktartorîya Saddam 36 sal berê 16’ê Adara 1988’an de li bajarê Helebce yê Başûrê Kurdistanê li hemberî kurdan komkujîyeke hovene pêk anî. Betirî 5 hezar Kurd bi çekên kîmyewî hatin qetil kirin û  bi hezara seqet man û cîhanê jî ev temaşe kir. Em wek Heyva Sor a Kurdistanê bi wesîleya 36’emîn salvegera komkujîya Helebceyê de  hemû şehidên vê komkujiyê bibîrtînin.

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36 years ago, on March 16, 1988, the Baath regime of Saddam’s dictatorship carried out a brutal genocide of the Kurds in the city of Halabja in southern Kurdistan. More than 5,000 people were killed with chemical weapons and thousands were severely disabled. The world was watching. On the occasion of the 36th anniversary of the Halabja massacre, we as the Kurdistan Red Crescent remember all the victims of this genocide.

[goransulaimani]

نوخشە ناسیح، قائیمقامی هەڵەبجە: تاوەک و برنج و قەلی هاوڕێکەم هەبێت نەورۆزان خواردن ئامادە ناکەم، پێم سەیرە پێم دەڵێن کچەکانت لەخۆت دەچن نا لە من ناچن جوانترن Noksha Naseeh, Governor of Halabja: I don't prepare food for Newroz until I have my friend's rice and cakes. I'm surprised that they tell me that your daughters look like you, not like me نقشا نصيح والي حلبجة: أنا لا أقوم بتحضير الطعام لنوروز حتى أحصل على أرز صديقي وكعك. أنا متفاجئ أنهم أخبروني أن بناتك يشبهونك وليس مثلي #halabja #nwxshanasih #2023 #21_3 (at Halabjah, As Sulaymaniyah, Iraq) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqDVDBrMVu3/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[feedramc]

دلار نقدی سلیمانیه آخرین نرخ معامله شده 49,750 زمان دقیق این قیمت 11:41 TEHRAN 1401/12/28 یکشنبه - 28 اسفند 1401 2023-03-19 Sunday - 2023 19 March Friday - 2023 17 March برای استعلام دقیق ارزهای موجود در بازار به این پیج مراجعه کنید. @feedramc #slemani #hawler #kurdistan #duhok #zaxo #kurd #karkuk #kurdish #akre #ranya #halabja #erbil #soran #kalar #amedi #iraq #dhok #gorani #kurdstan #kurdishgirl #kurdi #kurdm #ga #kerkuk #koya #chamchamal #ozhin #awatbokani #kirkuk #hewler (at Slemani_سلێمانی) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp9p_Hxo2B2/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[drsonnet]

كان الجد يحتضن حفيده لعله يحميه من زحات الغاز السام التي تتساقط على مدينة (حلبجة.. ھەڵەبجە)..و حين خارت قواه سقط  محتضنا حفيده...لا أحد يعلم هل مات الصغير أولا أم الجد؟ و لم ظل الجد يحمي جثته؟ ربما ليستطيع دفنه إن نجا من الموت..و لا أحد يعلم ما الذي فعله تحديدا هذا الصغير و هذا العجوز (عمر خاور) ليصب عليهم الحاكم (صدام حسين) غضبه في صورة قصف بالأسلحة الكيماوية على مدينة حلبجة شمال العراق ربيع عام 1988... (عندما كنت اقترب، كنت أرى الضحايا في وضع يشير إلى أنهم كانوا يحمون شخصا آخر، رضيعا أو طفلا أو زوجة، لكن الجميع فارقوا الحياة. و توفى شيخ كبير و هو يقطع كسرة خبز، و كان آخر مبتسما و بدا أنه توفى أثناء ابتسامته...آخرون ماتوا ببطء و هم يعانون من ألم شديد. لقى الجميع حتفهم في غضون ثوان..) – جون سيمبسون محرر الشؤون العالمية عن مجزرة حلبجة لبي بي سي BBC.

https://shayunbiqalbi.blogspot.com/2011/03/blog-post_8466.html

[phobic-human]

A preparation drill by Iranian fighters following Iraq's use of chemical weapons in Halabja on March 16, 1988.

[thomasthetankieengine]

Awww, what a good first step. You're right to recognize that the United States was formed in blood. Now that you've learned that, you've got a lot more reading to do about the history of ethnic cleansing and settler colonialism. You can pick any of the following topics

Resettlement policy of the Neo-Assyrian Empire

Asiatic Vespers

Roman destruction of Carthage

Roman expulsion of the Jews from Judaea

Mitma

Edict of Expulsion

Baltic Germans

Conquest of the Canary Islands

Alhambra Decree

Russian conquest of Siberia

Plantations of Ireland

Dzungar genocide

Cromwellian conquest of Ireland and Act of Settlement

Expulsion of the Acadians

Chinese conquests of Xinjiang and Tibet

Circassian genocide

Expulsion of the Albanians, 1830–1876 and 1877–1878

Pale of Settlement

Prussian deportations

Herero and Namaqua genocide

Ethnic cleansings during the Balkan Wars

1914 Greek deportations

Armenian genocide

Greek genocide

Bolshevik deportations of the Don Cossacks

Pacification of Libya

1923 population exchange between Greece and Turkey

Simele massacre of 1933

Deportation of Soviet Koreans

Population transfer in the Soviet Union

Independent State of Croatia's massacres of Serbs, Jews, and Roma

The Holocaust

Porajmos

Expulsion of Cham Albanians

Partition of India

Istrian–Dalmatian exodus

Jammu Massacre

Exodus of Turks from Bulgaria

Istanbul pogrom

1962 Rajshahi massacres

1964 East Pakistan riots

Arab Belt program

Cambodian genocide

Revival Process

Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

Halabja massacre

1991 Altun Kupri massacre

Palestinian exodus from Kuwait

South Ossetia War

Ossetian–Ingush conflict

Khojaly massacre

Ethnic cleansing during the Bosnian wars

May 1998 riots of Indonesia

Assyrian exodus from Iraq

2008 attacks on Uttar Pradeshi and Bihari migrants in Maharashtra

2010 South Kyrgyzstan ethnic clashes

2013 Myanmar anti-Muslim riots

Yazidi genocide

Rohinyga genocide

War in Tigray

Russian invasion of Ukraine

Blockade of Nagorno-Karbakh

The sooner you divest yourself of the delusion that ANY nation-state arose naturally and was formed easily or bloodlessly, the smarter you'll be. They ain't nothing natural or peaceful about the way that any part of Europe, Africa, or Asia is today.

[melikemordemjaponi]

✹Kürt gerillaların hikayesi, Japonya'da bir numaralı manga olarak yayınlanan ve Guinness Rekorlar Kitabı'nda yer alan dünyaca ünlü "Golgo 13" mangasında yer almaktadır.

Eserin adı "Yaşlı Bir Aslan" ve hikaye Kürt gerillaların süper A sınıfı bir keskin nişancı olan Golgo'dan Iraklı bir askeri komutanı vurmasını istemesiyle başlıyor.

Bu manga ilk olarak Mayıs 1996'da yayınlanmıştı, bu nedenle neredeyse 30 yıl önce Kürt gerillalarının manga'da tasvir edilmesi ve diyaloglarda Kürdistan'ın tarihi geçmişinin anlatılması şaşırtıcıdır.

Golgo'dan Iraklı bir komutanı vurmasını isteyen bir Kürt gerilla liderinin Golgo'ya Kürtlerin durumunu ateşli bir tonda anlattığı bir sahne de var.

"...biz, Kürt halkı, her zaman birileri tarafından kullanıldık... ve hepimizi kullandıktan sonra... her şeyimizi elimizden aldılar!"

Başka bir yerde, Baas rejiminin Irak'taki Kürt yerleşimi Halepçe'ye düzenlediği kimyasal silah saldırısı üzerine,

"Binlerce insanımızı zehirli gazla öldürdüler."

Her bir ülkenin o dönemdeki siyasi durumunu araştırıp hikayenizi kurgulama şeklinize hayran kaldım.

Kürdistan'ın doğası ve Kürtlerin yüzleri ve kıyafetleri de ezici bir güçle tasvir ediliyor ve Kürdistan halkının ve Kürtlerin ifadelerini gerçek hayatta gördüğümüz gibi hayata döndürüyor.

Bu manga'yu içeren kitap hala satın alınabilir durumda, bu nedenle ilgilenen herkesin alıp bir göz atması tavsiye edilir.

✹The story of a Kurdish guerrilla appears in the world-famous manga "Golgo 13," which is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records and is the number one published manga in Japan.

The title of the story is "The Old Lion," and it begins with a Kurdish guerrilla asking Golgo, a grade-A sniper, to shoot an Iraqi military commander.

It is surprising that almost 30 years ago, the Kurdish guerrillas were depicted in the manga and the historical background of Kurdistan was explained in the dialogue.

There is also a scene in which a Kurdish guerrilla leader, who asks Golgo to shoot an Iraqi military commander, explains the situation of the Kurds to Golgo in an impassioned speech.

"...we, the Kurdish people, have always been used by someone...and after they had used us all...they took everything from us!"

Another about the chemical weapons attack by the Ba'ath regime on the Kurdish settlement of Halabja in Iraq,

"They killed thousands of our people with poison gas."

I admire the way you have researched the political situation of each country at that time and built up your story.

The nature of Kurdistan and the faces and clothes of the Kurds are also depicted with overwhelming power, bringing back to life the expressions of the people of Kurdistan and the Kurds as we saw them in real life.

The book containing this work is still available for purchase, so if you are interested, please pick up a copy and take a look.

✹日本での発行巻数第1位であり、ギネスブックにも掲載されている、世界的に有名な漫画"ゴルゴ13"の作品の中にクルド人ゲリラの話が掲載されています。

作品タイトルは"老いた獅子"で、クルド人ゲリラが超A級スナイパーのゴルゴにイラク軍司令官の狙撃を依頼するところからストーリーが始まります。

この作品の初出は1996年5月ということですが、30年近く前に作品の中でクルド人ゲリラを描き、またクルディスタンの歴史的な背景をセリフで説明していたのは驚きです。

またゴルゴにイラク軍司令官の狙撃を依頼するクルド人ゲリラの指導者が、ゴルゴに切々とクルド人の状況を説明する場面があります。

「…我々クルド民族は、いつも誰かに利用されてきた…そして、奴らは利用し尽くした末に…我々からすべてを奪っていった!」

他にもイラクのクルド人居住地ハラブジャへのバアス政権による化学兵器での攻撃についても、

「我が同胞を��千人も毒ガスで抹殺した」

というセリフで説明されていて、その時代の各国の政治状況をよく調べてストーリーを組み立てていらっしゃるなあ、と敬服するばかりです。

またクルディスタンの自然とクルド人の顔や衣服なども圧倒的な画力で精緻に描かれていて、私たちが実際に目にした、クルディスタンとクルドの人々の表情がリアルによみがえります。

この作品を含んだ単行本は現在も購入可能ですので、ご興味を持たれた方はぜひ一度お手に取ってご覧ください。

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 3.16 (after 1970)

1977 – Assassination of Kamal Jumblatt, the main leader of the anti-government forces in the Lebanese Civil War. 1978 – Former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro is kidnapped; he is later murdered by his captors. 1978 – A Balkan Bulgarian Airlines Tupolev Tu-134 crashes near Gabare, Bulgaria, killing 73. 1978 – Supertanker Amoco Cadiz splits in two after running aground on the Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of Brittany, resulting in the largest oil spill in history at that time. 1979 – Sino-Vietnamese War: The People's Liberation Army crosses the border back into China, ending the war. 1984 – William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Lebanon, is kidnapped by Hezbollah; he later dies in captivity. 1985 – Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut; he is not released until December 1991. 1988 – Iran–Contra affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States. 1988 – Halabja chemical attack: The Kurdish town of Halabja in Iraq is attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents on the orders of Saddam Hussein, killing 5,000 people and injuring about 10,000 people. 1988 – The Troubles: Ulster loyalist militant Michael Stone attacks a Provisional IRA funeral in Belfast with pistols and grenades. Three persons, one of them a member of PIRA are killed, and more than 60 others are wounded. 1995 – Mississippi formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was officially ratified in 1865. 2001 – A series of bomb blasts in the city of Shijiazhuang, China kill 108 people and injure 38 others, the biggest mass murder in China in decades. 2003 – American activist Rachel Corrie is killed in Rafah by being run over by an Israel Defense Forces bulldozer while trying to obstruct the demolition of a home. 2005 – Israel officially hands over Jericho to Palestinian control. 2010 – The Kasubi Tombs, Uganda's only cultural World Heritage Site, are destroyed in a fire. 2012 – Former Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar becomes the first batter in history to score 100 centuries in international cricket. 2014 – Crimea votes in a controversial referendum to secede from Ukraine to join Russia. 2016 – A bomb detonates in a bus carrying government employees in Peshawar, Pakistan, killing 15 and injuring at least 30. 2016 – Two suicide bombers detonate their explosives at a mosque during morning prayer on the outskirts of Maiduguri, Nigeria, killing 24 and injuring 18. 2020 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 2,997.10, the single largest point drop in history and the second-largest percentage drop ever at 12.93%, an even greater crash than Black Monday (1929). This follows the U.S. Federal Reserve announcing that it will cut its target interest rate to 0–0.25%. 2021 – Atlanta spa shootings: Eight people are killed and one is injured in a trio of shootings at spas in and near Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. A suspect is arrested the same day. 2022 – A 7.4-magnitude earthquake occurs off the coast of Fukushima, Japan, killing 4 people and injuring 225.

[beyondtheknife]

why my boyfriend is a refugee

My boyfriend and his family came to the US as refugees from Kurdistan in 1999, and in 1988 fled to Pakistan. He's talked with me a bit about his people and his culture, but I admittedly don't know much about Kurdistan or its recent history.

Quick facts:

Kurdish regions include 4 countries: Iran, Iraq, Turkey, and Syria.

The Kurds are a distinct ethnic group that have been fighting for autonomy for many years (particularly against neighboring countries of Turkey and Iraq).

In the late 1980s, Kurdish living became especially perilous. Iraq began attacking Kurdish villages with the intent of exterminating their inhabitants. This came a few years after the Iraq-Iran War, in which Iraq invaded Iran in 1980 and the Kurds and Iranians fought back. Kurdish military fighters, peshmerga ("those who face death"), fought to regain Kurdish-inhabited areas of Iraq.

In response, Iraq launched the Kurdish Genocide in 1988, also known as Saddam Hussein's Anfal campaign. From February to September, air strikes, chemical weapons, looting, firing squads, raids, and deportation were used to either kill or displace Kurdish civilians. In total, this led to an estimated 50K - 180K civilian deaths (likely an underestimation) in the late 1980s and many more civilians forced out of their homeland-- among them, my boyfriend's family.

After their hometown of Halabja was attacked with poison gas in March 1988, they were forced to flee east to Pakistan. They remained in Pakistan throughout the 1990s.

In the 90s at the end of the Gulf War (1990-1991), the US and other Coalition nations came up with Operation Provide Comfort, which created a protected zone in Northern Iraq to protect Kurds. This gave way to the formation of an autonomous Kurdish region in Iraq, complete with its own flag, parliament, military, etc.

This region had its own government, made up of two parties-- the Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK). Unfortunately, this nascent autonomy barely lasted two years before a civil war between these two parties broke out in 1994. Clashes resulting in thousands of deaths continued until 1998, when a US-mediated ceasefire (the Washington Agreement) was signed. The two factions of the Kurdistan Regional Government remained peaceful, particularly to maintain a unified opposition against Saddam Hussein.

[lephenixkurde]

Génocide d'Halabja le 16 mars 1988 : anciens combattants français en Opex, anciens peshmergas et Kurdes de France unis dans le souvenir, 36 ans après

Les Kurdes de l'Hexagone n'ont pas oublié les victimes du bombardement chimique d'Halabja. Trente-six ans après l'acte génocidaire qui a coûté la vie à 5000 Kurdes et blessé 10.000 personnes en quelques heures, plusieurs commémorations du drame ont eu lieu en France, le samedi 16 mars 2024.

A Paris, la représentation du KRG en France a présidé l'hommage rendu aux victimes en présence d'anciens combattants français. Des gerbes ont été déposées préalablement devant le monument aux morts pour la France en opérations extérieures, dans le Parc André-Citroën. Puis, près de 130 personnes ont pris place sous la vaste serre pour écouter la dramatique histoire des habitants d'Halabja.

Kendal Nezan, le président de l'Institut kurde de Paris, et Ali Dolamari, le représentant du gouvernement régional du Kurdistan, ont pris la parole devant les porte-drapeaux et le public.

Ils n'ont pas oublié que le bombardement chimique ordonné 36 ans plus tôt par Saddam Hussein a laissé des traces encore aujourd'hui, notamment pour les rescapés qui vivent encore dans leur chair les conséquences de ce que la haute cour de justice irakienne a qualifié elle-même de génocide après la chute de Saddam Hussein en 2003.

Et pour cause. Déjà, en 1998, dix ans après le bombardement chimique d'Halabja, une étude épidémiologique faisait état des chiffres suivants rapportés en 2002 à la BBC par le Dr Fouad Baban, le directeur du centre d'études pour Halabja.

Le nombre de bébés atteints de trisomie 21 avait été multiplié par deux.

L'incidence de l'insuffisance cardiaque et de la cardiopathie congénitale avait quadruplée.

Les fausses couches étaient 14 fois supérieures à la normale...

Des chiffres et d'autres que l'on retrouve dans le livre de Béatrice Dillies, "Un génocide oublié, la voix brisée du peuple kurde", avec de nombreux témoignages.

Plusieurs gerbes ont été déposées devant le monument aux morts pour la France en opérations extérieures.

Zoubeyr Mahy a dédicacé le livre de Béatrice Dillies, "Un génocide oublié, la voix brisée du peuple kurde"

En l'absence de l'autrice, le livre a été présenté et dédicacé par Zoubeyr Mahy, le président de l'association franco-kurde d'Occitanie, qui est à l'origine de cette enquête au long cours qui a vu la journaliste toulousaine faire de nombreux déplacements sur le terrain, entre 2013 et 2018.

Plus d'une centaine de rescapés ont été interviewés dans toutes les régions du Kurdistan, ainsi que trois des juges qui ont participé au procès de Saddam Hussein, Ali Hassan al Majid - dit Ali le chimique - et leurs complices. Une contribution au débat sur la reconnaissance officielle du génocide kurde par la France.

Il en sera question lors du festival Un week-end avec elles qui se déroule du 4 au 7 avril 2024 dans le Tarn, les organisateurs ayant choisi de consacrer un jour à la culture kurde le 5 avril à Técou et un autre à l'histoire du génocide kurde le 6 avril salle Arcé à Albi.

A noter que Nazand Begikhani fera partie des intervenantes le 6 avril...et qu'il sera question du livre "Un génocide oublié, la voix brisée du peuple kurde".

[kurddigital]

١٦-٣-١٩٨٨ به‌ ته‌نیا جێ مه‌هێڵن ئه‌م شه‌و زریان ده‌مچێنێ ته‌م و مژ دام ده‌پۆشێ مانگه‌ شه‌و ده‌م ڕفێنێ ‏#kurd #zaxo #kurdish #slemani #akre #karkuk #erbil #ranya #kurdi #soran #iraq #kurddigital #halabja #hewler #kalar #kurdm #kerkuk #dhok #mardin #bakur #bashur #rojhalat #rojava #Hakkâri #هەولێر #سلێمانی #دهۆک #هەڵەبجەی_شەهید #هەڵەبجە #هەلەبجە https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp2LE1DsplY/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[varlski566]

March 16th 1988: Halabja massacre

The Halabja chemical attack is carried out by Iraqi government forces.

[goransulaimani]

Halabja never forget 16/3/1988 هەڵەبجە قرت لەیاد ناكرێیت ١٦ ی ٣ لنن ننساه ابدا حلبجة ١٦/٣/١٩٨٨ #halabja #never #forget #هەڵەبجە #حلبجة (at Halabja Technical Institute SPU - پەیمانگای تەکنیکی هەڵەبجە) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp2NKq3MoOv/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=