Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) has released a written statement on the Halabja Genocide, 16 March 1988, in which more than five thousand people were killed and thousands of others became permanently disabled after being hit by biological weapons of the brutal dictatorship of Saddam Hussein.

“All genocides in the human history are greatly painful and traumatic but the genocides in which the humanity took part by remaining silent are like non-healing wounds in our hearts, and Halabja is one of them”, said BDP and remarked that the pain of the Halabja Genocide still remains unrelieved because of the fact that the international powers that provided political support for Saddam's dictatorship have yet given no answer to the history and the humanity about their roles in this genocide.

BDP remarked that the impunity of the perpetrators of these great crimes against humanity has brought along further genocides like the mass killing of 30 Kurds in Qamislo on 12 March 2004, and of 34 civilian Kurds, mostly children, in Roboski on 28 December 2011.

“Traces of these genocides will never be erased and further mass killings will never be avoided unless light is shed on these genocides, their perpetrators are tried and this mass-murderer mindset is judged”, said BDP and noted that the organized struggle and democratic power of the people will prevent further similar crimes against humanity.