EPISODE · Dec 4, 2012 · 23 MIN

Decontaminating Halabja

from The Documentary Podcast: Archive 2012 · host BBC World Service

John Simpson looks back at the chemical weapons attack on the Kurdish town of Halabja, unleashed by Saddam Hussein in 1988. What hope and justice can a new scientific investigation offer to the families of those 5000 civilians who lost their lives?

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