Iraqi-Kurdistan marks the 31st anniversary of the chemical attack on the city of Halabja in which about 5,000 innocent Kurdish men, women and children died in a matter of minutes as carried out by the regime of the late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. In 1988 the Iraqi Baathist regime's brutal crackdown in the Kurdish-majority in the north of the country escalated, most infamously, when its merciless viceroy "Chemical" Ali Majeed ordered a massive gas attack on Halabja on the Iranian border that killed thousands within a few hours. There was ...