"Chemical Ali" In 1987 the Iraqis used chemical weapons to remove Kurds from their villages in northern Iraq during the Anfal campaign on about 40 Kurdish villages, 5,000 women, men, and children died within days. Approximately10,000 survive, with injury and sickness from the chemical weapons such as blindness, cancer, and birth defects. https://i.imgflip.com/6a0k0b.jpg