Major conflict1988

Halabja massacre

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Halabja · Iraqi Kurdistan · Iraq

Estimated casualties

3.2K – 5.0Kestimated dead

HEADLINE5.0K — the single figure used on the map

About 5,000 killed and over 10,000 injured in the chemical attack of 16 March 1988.

SOURCEscholarly

A large-scale chemical weapons attack by Iraqi forces on the Kurdish town of Halabja on 16 March 1988, during the Anfal campaign, killing roughly 5,000 civilians and injuring over 10,000. It is the largest chemical attack against a civilian population in history.

Belligerents2

Iraq (Saddam Hussein/Ba'athist government)
Kurdish civilians

Conflict graph

PART OFAnfal campaign

Sources

Wikipedia: Halabja massacre
UCDP Conflict Encyclopedia
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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