Howar Ziad: 'The Destruction Is Not Over'

The aftermath of genocide in Kurdistan lingers in memory

Published March 23, 2005

Gruesome images of dead mothers collapsed over their lifeless babies guided Ottawa Kurds to a public lecture hall to observe a day they'd sooner forget: March 16, 1988. On this date Saddam Hussein and Ba'athist sympathizers unleashed chemical and nerve agents in the southern Kurdistan town of Halabja, causing 5,000 to fall dead in their tracks and blinding 10,000 more.

The aftereffects, a full generation...

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