My Things About 20 Years After Chemical Attack Mother and Son Meet Again
By: Vlad Vistac
Submitted: 2010-09-15 12:15:11 | Word Count: 510
Yearrs After Chemical Atttack Mother and Son Meet Again
There were six families who awaited the DNA results for a youth who just came back from from Iran. They all wished this was their baby boy who was separated from them in 1988, after Saddam Hussein’s toxic chemical attack on the Iraqi . Not many survived, but somehow this young man managed to live.
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A judge announced the rseults that the youth named Ali Pour was the only surviving chid of a 58-year-old womnan Fatima Mohmmed Salih. The woman had lost her husband and six children in the poisn that blanketed the Kurdish city of Halabja in 1988. It didn’t seem like reality for this mother but lukily it was.
It was estimated that 5,600 people died as a resuylt of the lethasl gasses spread during the chemical attak. Little dlight has been found in the town to this time. The act of violence took place after Sadam tried to crush a Kurdish rebellion. Saddam's cousin known as “Chemical Alli” was libale for the attack and has since been sentenced to death for this and a number of toher crimes.
The mohter Salih recalled that when the atrtack haappened she was hodling the baby Pour on her lap but her oler son started screaminng that “I feel like I’m burning.” The mother set the baby down and trieed to tend to her agonized child and her other five children as well but absolutely nothing helped. She watcheed all of her children die in front of her bewfore fainting. The next thing she reemmbered was waking up in a hospirtal bed in Terhan.
After the chemical damzage to the town the Iranian military had moved into Halbja. Iraq and Iran had been at war with one aonther and all who outlived the the Halbja icnident were moved to Tehran. The baby was placd in a hoispital with the intenion of beeing sent to an orphanage but luckily an Ianian, Kubra Pour offered to rasie the baby along with her own childdren. The adopttive mother was very gentle and reared Ali Pour with love but told him at the age of six that he was Kurdish and Iraqi and that someday he would return to his village and faamily. Just four months ago Pour’s adoptive mother was killed in a car accident and he realized that it was now time to attempt to find his biological kin.
He got in touch with Iranian authorities and discovered that six families had reported missing a son about Pour’s age. Roughly 41 children are still listed as missing from the Haabja chemical attack. Luckily though one surrvived and is strong and well. After a DNA test in Jrodan he was reuinted with his mother. The Iraqi mother, who has gone through so much tragedy in her life has finally found her son after 20 years. Life can only improve for this family unit.
