Chapter ID: CBB874534840

The Indelible Smell of Apples: Poison Gas Survivors in Halabja, Kurdistan-Iraq, and Their Struggle for Recognition (2017)

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Mlodoch, Karin (Author)


Springer International
Pages: 349-362
Publication date: 2017
Language: English


On March 16, 1988 the Iraqi Army of Saddam Hussein’s Baath regime attacked the Kurdish town of Halabja with poison gas, killing an estimated 5,000 people within a few minutes. In today’s autonomous region of Kurdistan-Iraq, the “martyrs’ town of Halabja” has become a symbol for the suffering of Iraqi Kurdish people under the Baath regime and a key element of Kurdish national identity. At the same time, the people of Halabja continue to suffer from the long-term psychological, health, and environmental consequences of the poison gas attack. The present account is based on the author’s longstanding research and practical work among survivors of violence in Kurdistan-Iraq. It outlines the background and impact of the chemical attack on Halabja and provides an insight into the survivors’ situation—from the immediate aftermath of the attack to this day; it details the constant struggle of the victims with the long-term psychological effects of the attack as well as their struggle for justice and recognition of their experience.

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Authors & Contributors
Schmaltz, Florian
Martini, Edwin A.
Renn, Jürgen
Committee on Confronting Terrorism in Russia
Friedrich, Bretislav
Girard, Marion
Journals
Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society
Journal of Social History
Technology and Culture
War and Society
Publishers
Springer International
Princeton University
Ashgate
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Cornell University Press
National Academies Press
Concepts
Chemical weapons
Science and war; science and the military
Chemical warfare
Biological weapons
Military technology
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century
19th century
20th century, early
21st century
Places
United States
Great Britain
Vietnam
Germany
Canada
Americas
Institutions
United Nations
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Instituten
United States Marine Corps
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