Graves for Victims of 1988 Chemical Attack
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WREATHS were laid in Iraq’s Kurdistan region today in memory of the 5,000 people killed in the Halabja chemical attack more than three decades ago.
Relatives of the victims, survivors and government officials marched from the centre of the city, which borders Iran, to the martyrs’ graveyard where the flowers were laid.
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