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Kurdistan Regional Government Statement on
the Anniversary of the Halabja Massacre
16.3.2010 |
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March
16, 2010
WASHINGTON,
D.C.,— The Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq
Representative to the United States, Qubad J.
Talabani, released the following statement today in
commemoration of the anniversary of the chemical gas
attacks against Kurdish civilians in the town of
Halabja in 1988:
On this, the 22nd anniversary of the genocide of
Halabja—which took the lives of more than 5,000
Kurdish civilians, including women and children—the
people of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq commemorate
those innocents lost during this horrific event, as
well as the hundreds of thousands of Kurdish lives
taken by the atrocities committed against them
during the genocidal regime of Saddam Hussein. We
also take this opportunity to give thanks to
American military forces and to the United States
for liberating Iraq and for their continued support
for the people of Kurdistan as we seek to contribute
to the realization of a stable, federal and
democratic Iraq.
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Qubad Talabani is the Kurdistan Regional Government
(KRG) representative in the United States. |
The Halabja anniversary
is not, however, just a time for the people of the
Kurdistan Region to look back. It is a time for us
to heal, to seek closure and to look forward. This
year in particular represents a singular confluence
of what is now behind us—with the execution of Ali
Hassan al Majid, or “Chemical Ali”—and what is
ahead—with Iraq’s recent parliamentary elections,
which will determine the country’s future. The
people of Iraqi Kurdistan remain determined in this
time. The justice brought to Chemical Ali did not
bring rejoicing as much as it did a sober
acknowledgment, like with each
constitutionally-guaranteed vote we cast, that we
are taking real steps to ensure the Iraqi government
does not inflict the types of crimes seen by Saddam
Hussein’s regime ever again against anyone. The
people of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq will never
forget Halabja.
The Kurdistan Regional Government. Washington, DC.
Qubad J. Talabani. The Representative of the
Kurdistan Regional Government to the United States.
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