Iranian Kurdish Omar Khawar, Chemical Attack Victim, Dies

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Qadir Mollanpour, a resident of Sardasht and a victim of the Iraqi Baath regime’s chemical attack against the town in Iranian Kurdistan, died of sickness on Sunday at the age of 65.

Mollanpour was laid to rest in a cemetery in his village, Rasha Harme, on Sunday evening.

He was entitled Omar Khawar of the Iranian Kurdistan because he himself buried the dead bodies of his wife and his three children after the chemical attack in summer of 1988.

Omar Khawar was originally from Halabja, a town in Sulaymaniyah province of the Kurdistan Region which came under a similar attack in the same year by Baath agents.

The photo of Khawar, a man in Kurdish clothes, holding a new born in his arms tight while lying motionless on the ground in a lane, is still the most striking photo depicting the tragedy of Halabja, which according to unofficial reports, left 5,000 people dead and thousands more affected mentally and physically by the toxic gases.

Mollanpour or Omar Khawar of Iranian Kurdistan attended the hearing of Sardasht chemical bombardment in The Hague, the International Court of Justice.

He frequently complained that the Iranian government does not respond to the physical and psychological needs of the chemical bombardment victims.

The attack against Sardasht and Rasha Harme village claimed the lives of 118 people right away and wounded 1,600 more and some of whom have lost their lives due to their wounds in the past three decades.

Other areas in Iran which the Iraqi jets showered with poisonous gas cocktails were the district of Nodsha and the village of Zarduyi, both in the Kurdish Kirmanshah province.

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