Liam O'Mara IV, PhDMar 16
The #HalabjaMassacre was #ThisDayInHistory in 1988, when #SaddamHussein ordered a #MustardGas attack on the #Kurdish town #Halabja. 5,000 #Kurds were killed & 10,000 wounded. Across the #KurdishGenocide 100,000 were killed and 80% of settlements in #IraqiKurdistan were destroyed.
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Iran launched missile strikes on Kurdish organization headquarters in Iraqi Kurdistan, targeting groups allegedly opposing its revolution, while Iraqi Kurdistan authorities denied reports of Kurdish fighters crossing into Iran to support U.S.-Israeli operations against Tehran.
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Iran 'Strikes Kurdish Organization Headquarters in Iraq'

Iran launched missile strikes on Kurdish organization headquarters in Iraqi Kurdistan, targeting groups allegedly opposing its revolution, while Iraqi Kurdistan authorities denied reports of Kurdish fighters crossing into Iran to support U.S.-Israeli operations against Tehran.

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Show threadScooter Jun 10, 2025
Oddly, much of the rank and file on both sides of this are seeing #secession as more or less inevitable at some point - but it is studiously being avoided at the highest levels and in the media, even the nominally independent pundits.

Of course it won't be the "banners in the breeze" setup of the 1860s, but that doesn't mean that it won't happen.

Perhaps the most intriguing scenario is #SoftSecession , where we have a figurehead CIS-style Federal government mouthing platitudes of democracy and unity while the states forge their own alliances. We're already doing that to some extent, and it's entirely possible that the #Trumpista won't even really notice that much of a difference, provided they never venture into the "sinful" ("black") city.

Perhaps they'll have internal customs checkpoints as well, à la #IraqiKurdistan
Liam O'Mara IV, PhDMar 16, 2025
On #ThisDayInHistory in 1988, the Iraqi state and #ChemicalAli used #MustardGas to kill 5,000 #Kurds in #Halabja as a part of the #AlAnfal campaign of #KurdishGenocide. Over 100,000 were killed and 80% of the settlements in #IraqiKurdistan were destroyed by the #Baathist régime.
GretaNov 23, 2024
Landscape in Iraqi Kurdistan #Kurdistan #Iraqikurdistan #landscape #photography #travel #travelphotography
formuchdeliberationOct 20, 2024
Iraqi Kurds are voting for a regional parliament... #kurds #election #iraqikurdistan #governance #middleeast https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/polls-iraqi-kurdistan-open-regional-election-2024-10-20/
Show threadb9AcEJul 30, 2024

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) yesterday, elsewhere:
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#IraqiKurdistan: Syrian Kurdish journalist Suleiman Ahmed of RojaNews was sentenced today to 3 years in prison on the false charge of belonging to the Democratic Union Party (PYD). RSF condemns this unjust sentence and calls for his immediate release.
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The PYD is the political party in autonomous North and East Syria ("Rojava") whose militias are the world-beloved YPJ and YPG, primary in the territorial defeat of ISIL/Daesh, primary armed force of the Women's Revolution, etc.

Authoritarian reactionary Erdoğan's Turkey, a several times proven ISIL-collaborator and armer, considers PYD to be "terrorist" although it has not committed actual terrorism nor ever attacked Turkey, so Erdoğan's quisling party in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, the ruling Barzani-clan dominated KDP, does as their master wills it and fights against freedom, peaceful co-existence in diversity and self-determination, for the regime which has repeatedly stated genocidal intent with its imperialist war of aggression in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

Warszawska Formacja ⒶMar 17, 2024

Wczoraj miała miejsce 36 rocznica największego ataku z użyciem gazu bojowego od czasów I Wojny Światowej.

Nie był on przeprowadzony na cele wojskowe, a na ludność cywilną, a dokładnie Kurdów zamieszkujących Halabdżę, miasto w Irackim Kurdystanie.

Ataku dokonała armia iracka z rozkazu Saddama Hussaina, który chciał zdusić kurdyjski ruch niepodległościowy.

Zginąć mogło nawet 5,000 osób, a drugie tyle zostało rannych.

Na zdjęciu, mieszkańcy Syryjskiego Kurdystanu, Rożawy, oddają hołd zamordowanym.

#Halabja #IraqiKurdistan