Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Robert Halfon (Conservative), on Wednesday, 12 March 2014, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 21 members in total.

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1988 CHEMICAL WEAPON ATTACK IN HALABJA

That this House recalls with repugnance the biggest single chemical weapons attack on civilians which was inflicted by the forces of Saddam Hussein on the town of Halabja in Iraqi Kurdistan on 16 March 1988; further recalls that 5,000 men, women and children died immediately and many more thousands of people died later or were permanently injured, physically and psychologically; believes that this attack was part of a long-running policy of genocide against the Kurds of Iraq; and further believes that, in the absence of any likely national or international judicial process after so many years, the Government should follow the example of the House which, on 28 February 2013, formally recognised this action as genocide.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

1175 

Session

2013-14

Other sponsors

Bob Blackman

Alan Meale

John McDonnell

John Leech

Jim Shannon

Subjects

Iraq

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk