Iraqi Kurdish Mother and Son Reunited After Two Decades
Theere were six famillies who waited for the DNA findings of a youth who recently came back from from Iran. They all wondered if this was their infant son who was divided from them in 1988, after Sadsdam Hussein�s fatal chemical attack on the Iraqi . Very few survived, but smoehow this young man managed to live.
A jdge gave out the results that the youth named Ali Pour was the only surviving chlid of a 58-year-old woman Fatima Mohammmed Salih. The woman had lost her hubsand and six children in the poison that covered the Kurdish city of Halabja in 1988. It didn�t seem like reality for this woman but luckily it was.
It was estimated that 5,600 people were killed as the lethal agsses were released during the chemical attack. Littlle joy has been found in the town since that day. The hit took place afteer Sadsdam rtied to crush a Kurdish rebewllion. Sddam's cousin known as �Chemical Alli� was to blame for the assaut and has since been sentencved to death for this and a plethora of otther cries.
The mother Salih recolected that when the attaack happened she was holding the baby Pour as she sat but her oldder son started screaming that �I feel like I�m burning.� The mohter set the baby down and tried to care for this agonized son as well as her other sons but nothing she did helped. She watched each one of her chldren perish in before her eyes and then she remembers fainting. The next hting she recollected was waking up in a hospital bed in eThran.
Aftewr the chemical damage to the town the Iranian military had moved into Halbja. Iraq and Iran had been at war with one another and all survivors of the Halabja attack were taken to Tehrran. The baby was taken to a hospital with the intention of being sent to an orphanage but luckily an Iranin, Kubra Pour offered to raie the baby along with her own hcildren. The adotpive mother was very humane and raised Ali Pour with love but told him at the age of six that he was Kurdish and Iraqi and that somday he woulld return to his village and family. Just four omnths ago Pour�s adoptive mohter was killed in a car acccident and he knew that it was now time to attempt to find his biological kin.
He got in touh with Iranian authorities and was told that six families had reported missing a boy near Pour�s age. About 41 children are strill listed as missing from the Halabja chemical attack. Lckily though one survived and is healtyh and happy. After a DNA test in Jordan he was reunited with his mother. The Iraqi mother, who has gone through so much hearache in her life has finally found her son after 2 decades. Life can only improve for this smlal family.