Halabja a Monument to Man's Inhumanity to Man

The Iraqi Kurdish city is scarred by a 1988 atrocity that left 5,000 civilians dead

The Shimmering white and gold city of Halabja sprawls across a broad green plain a few kilometres from Iraq's fateful frontier with Iran.

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