Iraqi Kurdish Mother and Son Reunited After Two Decades

There were half a dozen families who awaited the DNA findings of a youth who lately came back from from Iran. They all wondered if this was their infant son who got separated from them in 1988, after Saddam Hussein’s fatal chemical attack on the Iraqi . Very few survived, but somehow this young man managed to live.

A judge gave out the results that the youth named Ali Pour was the only living child of a 58-year-old woman Fatima Mohammed Salih. The woman had lost her husband and six children in the poison that enclosed the Kurdish city of Halabja in 1988. It didn’t seem like reality to this mother but fortunately it was.

It was projected that 5,600 people were killed as the lethal gasses were released during the chemical attack. Little delight has come to the town to this time. The hit took place after Saddam tried to crush a Kurdish rebellion. Saddam's cousin known as “Chemical Alli” was responsible for the assault and has since been sentenced to death for this and a number of other crimes.

The mother Salih recollected that when the assault took place she was holding the baby Pour as she sat but her older son started screaming that “I feel like I’m burning.” The mother set the baby down and tried to care for her screaming child and her other five children as well but nothing she did was of any use. She watched each one of her children perish in before her eyes and then she remembers fainting. The next thing she recalled was waking up in a hospital bed in Tehran.

After the attack on the town the Iranian military had moved into Halabja. Iraq and Iran had been in a war with each other and all survivors of the Halabja raid were moved to Tehran. The baby was placed in a hospital with the intention of being sent to an orphanage but luckily an Iranian, Kubra Pour offered to raise the baby along with her own children. The adoptive mother was very gentle and raised Ali Pour with love but told him at the age of six that he was Kurdish and Iraqi and that someday he would go back to his village and family. Just four months ago Pour’s adoptive mother was killed in a car accident and he felt 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 near Pour’s age. About 41 children are still listed as missing from the Halabja chemical attack. Luckily though one survived and is healthy and happy. After a DNA test in Jordan he was reunited with his mother. The Iraqi mother, who has experienced so much heartache in her life has finally located her son after 20 years. Life can only get better for this small family.

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