In this file photo taken on March 16, 2014 an Iraqi Kurd man walks past grave stones as he visits a grave yard for the victims of a gas attack by former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in 1988 in the Kurdish town of Halabja, 300kms northeast of Baghdad. On March 16, 1988, as many as 5,000 Iraqi Kurds, mostly women and children, were killed when deadly gas was released on Halabja in the mountains of northeastern Iraq. PHOTO | SAFIN HAMED | AFP
More than 20 years later, General Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as "Chemical Ali" for ordering poisonous gas attacks, is hanged in 2010.
He insists he acted in the interests of Iraqi security and expresses no remorse.
Saddam is hanged in 2006 for another atrocity, closing various investigations under way against him, including for genocide of the Kurds.
HALABJA
On March 16, 1988, as many as 5,000 Iraqi Kurds, mostly women and children, were killed when deadly gas was released on the northern town of Halabja by Saddam Hussein's forces.
