Halabja, Suleimania, IRAQ -- The symbolic cemetery erected for the victims of Halabja massacre on 21 October, 2011. Halabja, a Kurdish town in Northern Iraq was bombed with chemical agents by the Saddam regime in efforts to decimate the Kurdish population in the North on March 16, 1988. Photo by Bikem Ekberzade

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Names of those killed during the chemical bomb attack of 16 March 1988 in Halabja are etched in black marble inside the genocide monument.

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Size: 2912px × 4368px
Location: Halabja, Suleimania, Iraq
Photo credit: © Bikem Ekberzade / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: genocide, halabja, iraq, killing, krg, kurdish, kurdistan, kurds, mass, massacre, monument, saddam, suleimania, suleymani