halabja is about 150 miles northwest of baghdad. it was seen as resistance to saddam hussein's regime. it was part of his plan of annihilation against the kurds called the ansal campaign in the 1980s which killed an estimated 100,000 people. seven defendants including saddam and his deputy, nome as chemistry ali, but saddam was executed in 2006 in a separate case before he could be progression cuteprosecuted for . courtney kealy, al jazeera. >> for more on the 28th anniversary of halabja, you i'm joined, the attack off halabja, iran-iraq war which is the longest war of the 20th century. no easy feat, how did you get there and what did you see? >> well, at first, the thing i have to say there is a lot of confusion that followed the attack, or attacks. and so it took a long time before the world really got a solid idea of what had happened there. it took us maybe five days after the attack before we actually set foot in halabja. this was a time when as you said, the iran-iraq war was moving towards a close after eight reality painful