Serangan gas beracun Halabja

Serangan gas beracun Halabja
Bagian dari Perang Iran-Irak Operasi Zafar 7
Tanggal 15 Maret–17 Maret 1988 Lokasi 35°11′LU 45°59′BT Halabja, Kurdistan Irak Hasil Kemenangan Irak, dihancurkannya Halabja Casus belli Pemberontakan Kurdi melawan pemerintahan Irak yang didukung Iran
Pihak yang terlibat
Irak	Iran Persatuan Patriotik Kurdistan
Komandan
Saddam Hussein Ali Hasan al-Majid	Nawshirwan Mustafa Jalal Talabani

Serangan gas beracun Halabja terjadi pada periode 15 Maret–19 Maret 1988 selama Perang Iran-Irak, ketika senjata kimia digunakan oleh pemerintah Irak terhadap kota Halabja (populasi 80.000). Korban peristiwa ini diperkirakan sekitar 5.000 jiwa.

Pranala luar

• Halabja gas attack and the Al-Anfal campaign, HRW
• Eyewitness report from Wildcat no.13 1989
• Lessons Learned: Iran-Iraq War. Army War College unclassified report by Dr. Stephen C. Pelletiere and LTC Douglas V. Johnson II
• Section of a report on Iraq Weapons of Mass destruction program relating to Halabja, CIA
• The 1988 Chemical Weapons Attack on Halabja, Iraq - Christine M. Gosden, Professor of Medical Genetics, University of Liverpool
• A War Crime or an Act of War?," New York Times, January 31, 2003.
• ICG article on the massacre from libcom.org
• Report on Halabja gas attack, U.S. State Department
• Rumsfeld should know : Who minded Iraqi mustard gas in 1983? International Herald Tribune, discusses the US role of shifting the blame for the gassing of Halabja off of Saddam and onto Iran
• A timeline of US relations with Iraq by Glen Ringwala and Nathaniel Hurd, two human rights researchers at the University of Cambridge