The death of human rights at the hands of human rights claimants; From Halabja to Gaza

According to the international group Tasnim news agency, March 25, 1366, always for the people of the region and maybe many The people of the world are reminded of one of the biggest crimes against humanity, which was added to the black record of “Saddam”, the criminal and dead dictator of Iraq. Another leaf of Saddam’s crimes against humanity

the use of chemical weapons by the Baath regime during the Holy Defense period was formed when they considered the dream of occupying Iran in one week as absurd and illusory. And for this reason, Saddam turned to the production and proliferation of chemical weapons. Based on the recorded information, this country used chemical weapons for the first time in the war with Iran on January 23, 1359.

Baath party with large investments and all-round support of some western countries. succeeded in obtaining a lot of information and facilities in the field of chemical, microbial and radioactive weapons, and with the support of these aids, he was able to carry out the largest volume and unconventional level of use of chemical weapons after the First World War.

Use Saddam’s use of chemical weapons in the eight-year war was not limited to Iran, and the Baath regime did not show mercy even to its own citizens, and it was March 25, 1366, that in just 24 hours, the Iraqi Baath regime dropped hundreds of chemical bombs over Halabja and nearby villages. and the homeless people and every living being in this area were massacred in a terrible way.

This crime was another part of Saddam’s crime, which he committed this time not in Iran but in his own hometown. With this, he was included in the list of one of the most brutal criminals in history.

On that date, at the same time as the start of Wal-Fajr 10 operation by Iranian fighters in the Kurdish region of Halabja, the Baath government, with the direct order of Saddam, started chemical bombing of its own people. in the region of Halabja. Saddam gave the order to his cousin and deputy, Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as Chemical Ali, to bombard these areas with chemicals. According to the United Nations investigation, which was later published in a report, mustard gas and some unknown nerve agent chemicals were used in this attack.

Following this attack that Part of the “Anfal” operation is famous, about 5 thousand people of Halabja, Iraq, who were generally civilians, lost their lives in a scandalous manner and in just a few minutes. Also, according to the sources, nearly 10,000 people from this region were injured, who may still feel the bitter memories of that disaster in their tired breaths. Kurds who died years later due to the consequences of breathing toxic gases or gave birth to children with physical defects. On the order of Saddam, it happened that the victory of Iranian forces in the Wal-Fajr operation on the fronts of Iraqi Kurdistan led to the liberation of many Kurdish areas, including Halabcheh. After the Iranian forces entered this city, the people of the surrounding cities and villages went to welcome them. This issue became a pretext for the Baath regime to aim its attacks at its own people in order to take revenge for this defeat and target this area with chemical bombs. Many sources emphasize that the army In this attack, the Iraqi Air Force used all kinds of chemical substances against the oppressed and defenseless people of Halabja. It is also said that the Iraqi Baath regime appeared in the skies of Halabja with 50 special planes, each carrying four 500 kg chemical bombs. In fact, Saddam gave a bitter reception to his countrymen by dropping 200 bombs containing chemicals.

According to many people present on that fateful day, at first they smelled something like the smell of fresh apples. Some of the victims died very quickly after smelling this smell, and others died after a few minutes.

One of the strange events that happened a few days before this attack, non-chemical bombing. And the sound barrier was broken by Saddam’s pilots in Halabja. It seems that he did this to minimize the possibility of people resisting the chemical bombardment by breaking the windows of the houses.

Death human rights; From Halabja to Gaza

But in the meantime, Iran’s response to Saddam’s anti-human crime against the Iraqi people was very admirable and attracted global attention. In a situation where the hospitals of our country were full of wounded people who were the targets of Baath regime attacks, the Iranians transferred the Iraqi wounded of this crime to the hospital. In addition, Iranian fighters, in cooperation with the residents of the area and Peshmerga forces, buried the victims in temporary mass graves.

In the meantime, the world community and the West and America, as usual, with completely double standards with This crime happened as if nothing important had happened. The tragedy of Halabja found little place in the international media and public opinion so that this crime is ignored along with other crimes of the Baath regime. The international community’s silence and inaction towards this crime continued until the Halabja tragedy was not included in the list of crimes committed by the Baath regime due to the scandal of its western supporters. Despite the sending of Iranian chemically injured people to European hospitals, there was never any mention of the Baath regime’s war crimes and crimes against humanity. There were 120 signatories to the 1925 Geneva Protocol and UN Resolution B2161 on the prohibition of the use of poisonous weapons, asphyxiation and bacteriological compounds.

Accordingly, the UN never mentioned Iraq as one of the members violating the treaty obligations. It did not.

It is clear that this behavior of the international community towards the crimes committed by the Baath regime is not surprising; As today we are witnessing the most brutal war of the century in Gaza, and human rights claimants have closed their eyes, ears and mouth to the crimes of the Zionist Nazis.

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