Halabja? Is that a falafel without hoummus? Or they thought the Kurds are Jews...

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Halabja survivors seek justice
By Caroline Hawley BBC News, Baghdad

Five thousand Kurds died in the gas attack on Halabja in 1988. "I screamed," Aras Abed remembers. "But there was no-one left to hear me."
Seventeen years on, he shows his children fading photographs of members of the family he lost in a single night, in one of the worst atrocities of Saddam Hussein's rule.