The city of Sardasht is one of the Kurdish cities of West Azerbaijan, Iran.In Iraq Iran War the city of Sardasht and its suburbs were bombarded with chemical mustard gas bombs on 28th of june 1987 by Baath Regime. Due to the bloodshed massacre of people in Sardasht and the vastness of catastrophe, this day was named "the Day of Struggle against the Use of Chemical and Bacterial Weapons".
Chemical bombardment of Sardasht was the violation of 1925 Geneva Protocol which prohibits the use of chemical and bacterial agents in war. Chemical attacks of Iraq against Iran residential areas occurred more than 30 times which bombardment of Sardasht with mustard gas was one of the main ones. During the imposed war, Iran experienced 252 times of chemical bombardment which resulted in more than 100 thousand Iranian military and civilian chemical casualties.
Due to the similarities between the catastrophe of Sardasht and atomic bombardment of Hiroshima during World War II, a street in Hiroshima was named Sardasht, and one in Sardasht was named Hiroshima. It is expected that nomination of these two cities as sister cities could attract global attention to what the victims of these tragedies still suffer from.
I know that in support of survivors of this disaster who struggle with different endless problem including respiratory, skin and neural problems, some non governmental organization have been established in Iran. In spite of all efforts done by these societies, Sardasht is deprived of having a proper place or a park for 8000 chemical injuries, still the situation of the city who have been examined in different medical commissions has not been determined, still the only hospital of the city does not have dermatologists, neurologists or eye and lung specialists, still the city's suburbs has not been wiped off of mines and rain moves these mines to residential areas which causes into injuries or even death of people, still the soil of this region is polluted with chemical substances, still children are born with the same traumas that their parents are suffering from, still …
Chemical bombardment of Sardasht was the violation of 1925 Geneva Protocol which prohibits the use of chemical and bacterial agents in war. Chemical attacks of Iraq against Iran residential areas occurred more than 30 times which bombardment of Sardasht with mustard gas was one of the main ones. During the imposed war, Iran experienced 252 times of chemical bombardment which resulted in more than 100 thousand Iranian military and civilian chemical casualties.
Due to the similarities between the catastrophe of Sardasht and atomic bombardment of Hiroshima during World War II, a street in Hiroshima was named Sardasht, and one in Sardasht was named Hiroshima. It is expected that nomination of these two cities as sister cities could attract global attention to what the victims of these tragedies still suffer from.
I know that in support of survivors of this disaster who struggle with different endless problem including respiratory, skin and neural problems, some non governmental organization have been established in Iran. In spite of all efforts done by these societies, Sardasht is deprived of having a proper place or a park for 8000 chemical injuries, still the situation of the city who have been examined in different medical commissions has not been determined, still the only hospital of the city does not have dermatologists, neurologists or eye and lung specialists, still the city's suburbs has not been wiped off of mines and rain moves these mines to residential areas which causes into injuries or even death of people, still the soil of this region is polluted with chemical substances, still children are born with the same traumas that their parents are suffering from, still …
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