used by the former regime against the Kurds in Balisan area in Erbil province in 1987 due to his wounds

“The Association recorded since 2006 and so far the death of 84 people infected with chemical weapons in the areas of Kurdistan ,” A member of the Association, Houshmd Murad said in an interview with " Shafaq News “.

He added that the available statistics to the Association indicates the presence of about 204 other people affected by these weapons and need to receive treatment on an ongoing basis , noting that 90 of them were in serious condition .

Murad noted that the financial and economic crisis experienced by the region affected the progress of the treatment of these patients, and sending them out of Iraq for treatment , but he also said the Regional government had put in 2006, the foundation stone of a private hospital to treat the injured people with chemical weapons in Halabja, but this project has not seen light as result of negligence of the concerned authorities to it.

The former regime had used internationally banned chemical weapons against the civilian population in many areas of the Kurdish -majority during the attacks by called as Anfal operations carried out by eight stages that killed caused missing of some 200 000 civilians and the destruction of about five thousand villages.

The height of the use of chemical weapons occurred on March 16, 1988, when the former regime had bombed Halabja city by planes and cannons reaching this town located within the boundaries of Sulaymaniyah province, killing five thousand civilians and wounding about twenty thousand others, many of them still suffer from its effects.