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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.

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Chemical weapons watchdog concludes Islamic State used mustard gas in 2015 attack in Syria
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Chemical weapons watchdog concludes Islamic State used mustard gas in 2015 attack in Syria

Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons concludes six artillery shells contained the chemical agent

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CT History News Aug 27, 2023

Today in #Connecticut History, August 27: “Substance X” Leads To the Nation’s First Chemotherapy Treatment

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August 27: “Substance X” Leads To the Nation’s First Chemotherapy Treatment

Today in 1942, following top-secret research on the effects of the war-poison mustard gas, physicians at Yale University made medical history as they administered the first use of intraven…

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