Riot marks 18th anniversary of chemical attack on Kurds
Nearly 2,000 angry Kurdish demonstrators today went on a rampage and badly damaged a monument to the 5,000 people killed in the poison gas attack on Halabja by Saddam Hussein’s army in Iraq 18 years ago.
Police fired live ammunition into the air, killing one person and wounding at least eight, in a bid to stop the mayhem by residents, angry over what they see as the regional government’s failure to rebuild the area.
