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Halabja victims German gov't to apologize
16.3.2010
By Thomas v. der Osten-Sacken, ekurd.net |
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Kurds
demand apology for poison gas attacks.
March
16, 2010
ERBIL-Hewlęr,
Kurdistan region 'Iraq', (ekurd.net) —
On
22nd anniversary
of
the poisonous gas attack
on the Kurdish town of Halabja, families of
Halabja city’s chemical bombings victims
demonstrated on Tuesday before the German Consulate
in Erbil city, demanding the German government a
formal apology for selling chemical weapons to the
former Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein who ordered to
launch the attacks on Kurds in 1988.
This morning, representatives of various
Iraqi-Kurdish demonstrations villages and towns that
were attacked with poison gas in the 80 years before
the German consulate in Iraqi Kurdistan. They
demanded that the Federal Republic of Germany
finally an official apology for the delivery of
weapon systems and components for the production of
poison gas used by the former Iraqi bloody regime to
massacre civilians Kurds in Halabja town.
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A 1988 attack with poisonous gas and chemical agents
that left 5,000 civilian Kurds dead in the Kurdish
town of Halabja. |
On 16 March 1988, the Iraqi army
had deliberately targeted the Kurdish town of
Halabja with poison gas bombs. 5000 civilians died
instantly, thousands in the long-term consequences.
Also 35 other towns and villages were bombed during
this period.
It is well known that German companies at that time
as "Death Dealers" functioned. To no one has been
held accountable. Even Germany has never accepted
responsibility for these crimes and apologizes to
the Kurds.
So far, no official representative of the Federal
Republic of Germany has ever visited Halabja.
For this reason, representatives of all villages
today demonstrated in front of the Consulate General
of media coverage and demanded that General Oliver
Schnakenberg, finally, the pending apology. if this
fail, the demonstration would be repeated at every
anniversary.
"So far, many representatives of Germany visited Kurdistan, but no one has
ever mentioned the poison-gas supplies," says the
petition. "When Germany continued to refuse to make
an official apology, we must assume that it belongs
to the peace-loving nations."
The demonstration took brisk response in local
media.
By Thomas v. der Osten-Sacken in German language
for ekurd.net, translated by Shabaz
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