In memory of victims of #Sardasht`s #chemical bombing
Thirty-three years ago, on the afternoon of July 28th, 1987, a number of Iraqi Ba'athist aircrafts appeared over the skies of Sardasht and surrounding villages. In a criminal act, they dropped their chemical bombs on the innocent and defenseless people, created a great catastrophe, leaving the heart and emotions of Kurdish, Iranian and people of the world in a tragic sense.
Chemical bombs were dropped on four crowded parts of the city. The attack killed 110 civilians and poisoned 8,000 others. The victims of this tragedy still, after all these years, have to endure the painful effects of it forever and pass the suffer of its consequences to the next generations.
Sardasht is considered to be the first victim of chemical weapons in the world after the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima. The chemical bombing of Sardasht was a turning point in the reactionary war of Iran-Iraq in terms of the use of weapons of mass destruction against ordinary people. Earlier that time, the Ba'athist regime had used chemical weapons against the Peshmerga and in battlefield against the front of soldiers of opposite side. However, it was their first time using chemical weapon against civilian and innocent people and it was a sign that crime was at its height in this reactionary war. This was the first time since World War I that chemical weapons had been widely used by hostile governments. A few months after the chemical bombing of Sardasht, the Ba'athist regime of Iraq created the Halabja disaster in which nearly 5,000 people died and more than 7,000 were injured and poisoned.
The imperialist governments and those who provided chemical weapons to these war criminals consciously remained silent about these tragedies for their own economic and political interests, thus helping the Ba'athist regime to repeat this tragedy on a much more horrific scale in Halabja. Although these governments themselves drafted and signed the Protocol on the Prohibition of the Production and Use of Chemical Weapons, adopted in 1925 in Geneva, they did not hesitate to produce or sell these weapons during the war.
Passing more than three decades of chemical bombing of Sardasht, the Islamic Republic of Iran has done nothing for the chemically injured and disabled victims of this attack but hypocritically playing innocent and sanctifying of the 8-year war and acquitting itself of the crimes committed during the time of war. Survivors of the tragedy still suffer from what happened to them. Every year, the regime uses propaganda for this tragedy in its ceremonial and theatrical events, and the only thing that is not taken into account is the life and fate of the surviving victims.
Although the perpetrators of this catastrophe, who were directly involved in its creation, have not remained in power and have been thrown into the trash of history, there are still other criminals who rule Iran and are no less than Saddam and his accomplices. Those who kill, imprison and torture the hardworking #Border_porters known as Kolbar and make their families and relatives suffer in the same region of Sardasht should be pulled down of power and be taken on a fair trial.
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