Family Reunited after Chemical Attack Separated Them

There were half a dozen families who awaited the DNA findings of a youth who lately came back from from Iran. They all wished this was their infant son who was separated from them in 1988, after Saddam Hussein’s perilous chemical attack on the Iraqi . Not many survived, but somehow this young man did.

A judge revealed the outcome that the man named Ali Pour was the only surviving child of a 58-year-old woman Fatima Mohammed Salih. The woman had lost her husband and six children in the poison that covered the Kurdish city of Halabja in 1988. It didn’t seem like reality for this mother but happily it was.

It was projected that 5,600 people were killed when the lethal gasses were released during the chemical attack. Little happiness has graced the town to this moment. The hit took place after Saddam tried to crush a Kurdish rebellion. Saddam's cousin known as “Chemical Alli” was liable for the strike and has since been sentenced to death for that and a plethora of other crimes.

The mother Salih recalled that when the attack happened she was holding the baby Pour on her lap then her older son started screaming that “I feel like I’m burning.” The mother set the baby down and tried to tend to this screaming son as well as her other sons but absolutely nothing was of any use. She watched all of her children die in front of her before fainting. The next thing she remembered was waking up in a hospital bed in Tehran.

After the attack on the town the Iranian military had moved into Halabja. Iraq and Iran had been at war with each other and all survivors of the Halabja attack were moved to Tehran. The baby was taken to a hospital with the intention of being sent to an orphanage but luckily an Iranian, Kubra Pour offered to raise the baby along with her own children. The adoptive mother was very gentle and reared Ali Pour with love but told him at the age of six that he was Kurdish and Iraqi and that someday he would go back to his village and family. Just four months ago Pour’s adoptive mother was killed in a car accident and he knew that it was now time to attempt to find his biological family.

He got in touch with Iranian authorities and learned that six families had reported missing a boy about Pour’s age. About 41 children are still listed as missing from the Halabja chemical attack. Luckily though one survived and is healthy and happy. After a DNA test in Jordan he was reunited with his mother. The Iraqi mother, who has experienced so much misfortune in her life has finally located her son after 20 years. Life can only improve for this family unit.

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