Halabja: never again
The Joint Committee on Kurdistan
The Kurdish Observer
"Like figures unearthed at Pompeii, the victims of Halabja were killed so quickly that their corpses remained in suspended animation. There was the plump baby whose face, frozen in a scream, stuck out from under the protective arm of a man, away from the open door of a house that he never reached.
Nearby, a family of five who had been sitting in their garden eating lunch were cut down - the killer gas not even sparing the family cat or the birds in the tree, which littered the well-kept lawn.
The Iraqi bombers first struck last Wednesday, dropping the chemical agents relentlessly and leaving behind the groans of the mustard gas victims, the trail of refugees and the haunting wax work figures frozen by cyanide vapour.
Halabja was once a prosperous market town surrounded by green pasture on the shore of Dar Bandikhan lake, overlooked on three sides by the snow-capped mountains of Kurdistan."
The Times - Tuesday March 22 1988
Halabja: never again
The Joint Committee on Kurdistan
The Kurdish Observer
The Kurdish Observer
Halabja: never again
The case against chemical and biological weapons
Public meeting
Held by The Joint Committee on Kurdistan
June 17th 1988
Groups campaigning against Chemical & Biological Weapons
Compiled by: The National Peace Council
29 Great James Street
London WC1N 3ES
Tel: 01-242 3228
Chemical & Biological Weapons Working Group
Contact: Elisabeth Sigmund: Tel: (072 687) 782
Pencalenick, Lanteglos-by-Fowey, Polrey, Cornwall, PL23 1NH
Chemical Weapons Action Group
Chair: Paul Rogers
37 Pemberton Drive
Bradford
Other Contact: Angela Gunning: c/o PPU Tel: 387 5501
Groups concerned with the situation in Kurdistan
Kurdish-British Medical & Scientific Support Group (SMSK)
Contacts: Prof. Steven Rose, Open University
Dr. Alastair Hay Leeds University
or through Liz Sigmund (tel. number above)
Kurdish Cultural Centre (KCC)
13-15 Stockwell Road,
London SW9 Tel: 274 6251
Contacts:
HOSHYAR RESHID, (tel: 274 6251)
Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP)
PO Box 1504
London W7 3LX
Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK)
BM Box 5576
London WC1N 3XX
Kurdish Workers Association
81A Stoke Newington Road
London N16
Tel: 01-254 0442
Contact: Ihsan Qadir
Kurdish Observer
BM Box 9099
London WCI 3XX
Contact: B. jaf
Kurdistan Press
81A Stoke Newington Road
London N16
Tel: 01-254 0442
Contact: Muhammed Xani
Groups concerned with the situation in IRAQ
Committee Against Repression and for Democratic Rights in Iraq
(CARDRI)
Details: CARDRI, PO Box 210, London N16 5PL
Published by: The Joint Committee on Kurdistan
Edited & Collated by : The Kurdish Observer
BM Box 9099
London WC13 XX
