Kurds in the Iraqi Kurdistan region have commemorated the 36th anniversary of the Halabja gas attack on Saturday calling on authorities to compensate the massacre’s survivors. During the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988), the former Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussien attacked the people of Halabja with chemical weapons on 16 March 1988, killing more than 5,000 people, and wounding tens of thousands. The event stood as one of the most horrific instances of chemical warfare targeting civilians. Thirty-six years since the attack, relatives of the victims and survivors held the Iraqi federal government and th…