The memorial remembers the thousands people who were killed gas attacks by Saddam Hussein’s regime on March 16, 1988 in the Kurdish town of Halabja in Iraqi Kurdistan.
The Halabja poison gas attack also known as Halabja massacre was an incident that took during the closing days of the Iran–Iraq War, when chemical weapons were used by the Iraqi government forces.
The attack killed between 3,200 and 5,000 people and injured around 7,000 and 10,000 more, most of them civilians thousands more died of complications, diseases, and birth defects in the years after the attack. The incident, which has been officially defined as an act of genocide against the Kurdish people in Iraq,was and still remains the largest chemical weapons attack directed against a civilian-populated area in history.
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