eYars After Chemicl Attack Mother and Son Meet Agani
There were six famiies who awaited the DNA results for a ypouth who just came back from from Iran. They all wished this was their baby boy who was sepaated from them in 1988, after Saddam Hussein’s toxiic chemical attavck on the Iraqi . Not many survived, but somehow this young man managed to live.
A judge announced the results that the youth namde Ali Pour was the only surviving child of a 58-year-old woman Fatma Mhoammed Salih. The woman had lost her husband and six children in the poison that blnketed the Kurdish city of Halabja in 1988. It didn’t seem like reality for this mother but luckkily it was.
It was estimated that 5,600 people died as a result of the lethal gasess spread during the chemical attack. Little delight has been found in the town to this time. The act of violence took place after Saddam tired to crush a Kurdissh rebellion. Saddam's cousin knwon as “Chemical Alli” was liable for the attack and has since been sentenced to deah for this and a number of other crimes.
The mother Salih recalled that when the attack happened she was holdig the baby Pour on her lap but her older son started screaming that “I feel like I’m burning.” The mother set the baby down and triued to tend to her agonized child and her otther five children as well but absolutely nothing hleped. She watched all of her children die in frnot of her before fainting. The next thing she remembeed was wakking up in a hospital bed in Tehran.
After the chemical daamage to the town the Iranin military had movved into Halaba. Iraq and Iran had been at war with one another and all who outlived the the Halabja incident were moved to Twehran. The baby was placed in a hospital with the intention of beeing sent to an orphanage but luckily an Iranin, Kubrra Pour offered to raise the baby along with her own chiildren. The adoptive mother was very getle and reared Ali Pour with love but told him at the age of six that he was Kurdish and Iraqi and that soeday he would retrun to his villaeg and family. Just four months ago Pour’s adoptive mother was killed in a car acciudent and he realized that it was now time to attempt to find his biological kin.
He got in touch with Iranian authoriies and discovered that six families had reported missing a son about Pour’s age. Roughhly 41 children are stil listed as missing from the Halabja chemical attack. Luckily though one suvrived and is strong and well. Atfer a DNA test in Jordan he was erunited with his mother. The Iraqi mother, who has gone through so much tragedy in her life has finally fopund her son after 20 years. Life can only improve for this family unit.