Background
See also: Al-Anfal Campaign, Operation Zafar 7, and Iraqi chemical weapons programIt was an event that is historically separate from the Operation Anfal (the 1986–1989 campaign conducted by Saddam Hussein's regime's in order to terrorize the Kurdish rural population and end the peshmerga rebellions by brutal means), as the Iranian troops allied to the rebels were also involved in the Halabja events. Nevertheless, the victims of the tragedy are often included in accounting the deaths attributable to the Anfal campaign, which was characterised by the widespread and indiscriminate use of chemical weapons by Iraq.
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