Free Republic

All or nothing at all -- three-quarters of a country never appealed to him, nor did the idea of a political entity called Northern Ireland that was created in 1920, comprising the six northeastern counties of Ireland in the province of Ulster. Gerry Adams is still adamant about the need for a united Ireland. As a political entity, the Republic of Ireland, first called the Irish Free State, was created in 1922. On November 18, 2017 the 69-year-old Adams, president since 1983 of Sinn Fein, the left-wing political party, announced that it was time for a change and that he...

Sixteen years ago today, 5,000 innocent Iraqi civilians perished under a barrage of mustard gas; nerve agents sarin, tabun and VX; and possibly cyanide. The brutal attack, launched by their own government, earned Saddam Hussein the dubious distinction of becoming the first world leader in modern times to have used chemical weapons on his own people. The victims of the attack were residents of Halabja, 150 miles northeast of Baghdad and just south of the Iranian border. Three-quarters of them were women and children. The chemical attacks on what has come to be known as "Bloody Friday" were the most...

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Bloody Friday Chemical massacre of the people of Halabja by the Iraqi regime March 1988 Prepared by Alex Atroushi Every murder destroys a measure of human dignity. Every genocide murders a piece of the whole world. We were burnt as newly-grown plants, In the current of poisonous winds, And showed our dreadful wounds, From one side of the world to the other. But the unjust eyes of the world Were never opened truly towards the oppressed. The world only confined itself to a false regret, And once again, We became a target as heaps and heaps of martyrs, We were...