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(16 Mar 2018) Iraq's Kurdish region commemorated the 30th anniversary of Saddam Hussein's 1988 gas attack in the northeastern Kurdish town of Halabja that killed 5,000 people. Kurdish officials delivered speeches to a crowd of hundreds gathered for the ceremony at a stadium in the town. At a cemetery where many of those killed in the attack are buried, relatives of victims, survivors of the attack and officials laid flowers beside rows of headstones. "Unfortunately I am still waiting to hear something about my mother, my aunt and everybody else (of the family). So far I haven't heard anything about them, and every year in this day my wounds are renewed," said 35-year-old Shula Mohmmad. Saddam used chemical weapons against the town of Halabja near the Iranian border in 1988, during the Iran Iraq war. At the time the town opposed Saddam and was allegedly providing a safe haven for Iranian troops. The vast majority of those killed in the nerve and mustard gas attacks were Kurds. "Unfortunately, we are still carrying the same suffering that we suffered in the past, until now those injured in the chemical attack have not received proper treatment, until now the city has not been fully recovered and until now the city still needs the infrastructures that were destroyed," said 45-year-old Hikmat Faiq Arif, a resident of Halabja and relative of the victims. Many survivors still suffer from the after-effects. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...