Halabja

British  

/ həˈlæbdʒə /

noun

1. a Kurdish town in NE Iraq; in March 1998 Iraqi forces used poison gas on the population, killing hundreds of civilians. Pop: estimates vary between 45 000 and 80 000

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Example Sentences

That tension over water persists all the way beyond the mountains near Halabja, where the Sirwan forms the border between Iran and Iraq.

From Los Angeles Times

An estimated 5,000 Kurds died in a chemical weapons attack launched by Hussain in the town of Halabja in March 1988.

From Fox News

The March 1988 Iraqi attacks on the Kurdish town of Halabja — where Iraq government forces massacred upwards of 5,000 civilians by gassing them with chemical weapons — was downplayed by the Ronald Reagan administration, even to the point of leaking phony intelligence claiming that Iran, then the preferred enemy of the U.S., was actually responsible.

From Salon

The Halabja tragedy was not an isolated incident, as U.S. officials were well aware at the time.

From Salon

“We are free here. As a Kurd, as a Muslim, we are free more than in our back home countries,” said Nawzad Hawrami, director of the Salahadeen Center, who lived in the Iraqi city of Halabja during al-Anfal.

From The Guardian