Sydney's Kurdish youth hold Halabja memorial

Candle light vigil for Halabja victims in Sydney

Source: SBS Kurdish

Sydney Kurdish Youth Society will hold a memorial event for the 31st anniversary of Halabja's Bloody Friday, the day Saddam Husein's Baathist regime attacked the Kurdish town of Halabja with chemical weapons killing more than 5000 thousand civilians. We Speak to Hawkar Palanî from SKYS about their plans for the 2019 memorial in Sydney.



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