Family Reunited after Chemical Attack Separated Them

There were half a dozen families who waited for the DNA findings on a youth who just came back from from Iran. They all wondered if this was their baby boy who was 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 announced the outcome that the man called Ali Pour was the sole surviving 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 for this woman but happily it was.

It was projected that 5,600 people died as a result of the lethal gasses released during the chemical attack. Little happiness has graced the town to this time. The act of violence took place after Saddam tried to crush a Kurdish rebellion. Saddam's cousin known as “Chemical Alli” was to blame for the attack and has since been sentenced to death for this and a number of other crimes.

The mother Salih recalled that when the attack took place she was holding the baby Pour as she sat then her older son started screaming that “I feel like I’m burning.” The mother set the baby down and tried to tend to the screaming child and her other five children as well but absolutely nothing was of any use. She watched all of her children die in before her eyes and then she remembers collapsing. The next thing she recollected 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 one another and all who survived the the Halabja incident were relocated 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 kind 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 died in a car accident and he knew that it was now time to try to find his biological family.

He contacted Iranian authorities and discovered that six families had reported missing a boy about Pour’s age. Roughly 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 found her son after 20 years. Life can only improve for this family unit.

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