Friday, March 16, 2007

Halabja 19 year memorial day

The day before today we travelled to Slemani with a stop in Kirkuk. It was snowing which is quite strange in Slemani at this time just some days before the Kurdish Newroz, New Year.

We were at a arts exhibition performed by our Youth Culture Center in Slemani. Impressing talents are teachers there and the result was a very special and very rare arts exhibition in its kind.

It was held at Saddams secret service office which in practice was a torture center and death chamber.


The day started with work and in "Bauhaus" this view could be enjoyed, even by the owner.




At Bauhaus





Exhibition part I - In the basement



Old bloody Saddam weapons I





Old bloody Saddam weapons II




Arts exhibition hall - Also former secret service building





UZI in Kurdistan? Wel,l it looks handy for the life guard.





End




Halabja 19 years after the chemical attack on the memorial day.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Where is this? Was the memorial site not open? I went to the memorial a few times and got some nice photos and very informative information packet from the curator of the memorial.

All the best to everyone there.

Greg

Kurdish Waves said...

This is the secret service center in Slemani, called "Emna Soraka" in Kurdish. It is not the memorial monument in Halabja.