Today we recall with pain the memory of the massacre of Halabja, in which hundreds of thousands of Kurdish citizens were killed after being bombed with chemical weapons by the Ba'athist despotic regime in 1988.

Our people cannot forget the enormous taxes it paid as a result of the Ba’ath’s policies, massacres, tyranny, wars and oppression. We must be aware of history and employ its stations so that tyranny will not repeat its action against our people and their hopes.

On this anniversary, we call for national unity and the guarantee of the proper establishment of a just political system that fulfills the aspirations of the people with all its nationalities and sects.

Halabja will remain a stain on the forehead of the Black Baath, and a point of rallying for the achievement of justice, equality, and coexistence.