Halabja honors International photographer Ahmad Natiqi

The Governor of Halabja, Azad Tofiq, honored Iranian photographer Ahmad Natiqi during a ceremony that took place on Tuesday.

As a media photographer, Natiqi witnessed the Chemical attack on Halabja Governorate in 1988.

Ahmed Natiqi was born in 1958 in the south of Tehran. He began his journey as a photographer in 1970. He documented the Iran-Iraq war From 1978 to 1983. 

He also documented the Halabja tragedy, and he took the famous Omar Khawar photo of who died in the chemical attack holding his infant baby.

After 20 years of the Halabja tragedy, he opened an exhibition in both Slemani and Halabja in 2009, in which he demonstrated his photographic works where his move was warmly welcomed by the people of Halabja.

On March 16, 1988, the city of Halabja witnessed the most heinous crime against humanity. The city was bombed with banned chemical weapons by the fallen Iraqi Baath regime. 

Over 5,000 innocent people from children, women, and the elderly were martyred on this day, and more than 10,000 were injured.



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