Archive for the ‘Genocide’ Category
Chemical of Halabja by the Iraqi regime
Report from South Kurdistan
We were burnt as newly-grown plants, In the current of poisonous winds,
And showed our dreadful wounds, From one side of the world to the other.
But the unjust eyes of the world Were never opened truly towards the oppressed.
The world only confined itself to a false regret,And once again,
We became a target as heaps and heaps of martyrs,We were the target of poisonous bombardments,
We were the target of destructive bombs,And we remained the lonely oppressed ones of the world.
We rose from under tons of debris, And stood up in the lands of poisonous bombings,
And we kept up standing and fighting,Believe it, you people of tomorrow,
Believe such a history and learn a lesson,Learn how to fight oppression in this way.*
In October 1988, while the destruction of Kurdistan and the mass killing of the Kurds by the Iraqi regime was a well-known fact, though understandably not documented, at least in the West, Milton Viorst published a peculiar article in the International Hearald Tribune (2) under the title: ‘Iraq and the Kurds: Where Is the Proof of Poison Gas?.’
Viorst felt that it was unjust to punish the Iraqi government ‘for a particular crime that, according to some authorities, may never have taken place.’ To do the Iraqi government some good he then spent a week in Iraq ‘looking into the question.’ Since those who alleged that Iraq had used chemical weapons against the Kurds were not able to proof it, Viorst’s visit to Iraq was presented in the article as a proof of the opposite.