Use at Halabja, Iraq 1988[edit]
On March 16, 1988, the Halabja massacre occurred. The Iraqi army hit residential areas of the Iraqi city with sarin gas and the roads leading out of the city with mustard gas the day after. An estimated 3,200 to 5,000 people were killed. Most of the victims were Kurdish Iraqi civilians who died within minutes after the bombing and those who survived and tried to leave the city the following day were injured when they passed contaminated roads.
In the meanwhile, an Iraqi high-ranking authority officially confessed in a meeting with Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, the Secretary-General of the United Nations for the utilization of chemical weapons by Iraq.[20]
Use in Southern Iraq against the Popular Uprising, 1991[edit]
- March 1991: an-Najaf – Karbala area – Nerve agent & CS, Shi'a casualties not known.[citation needed]
