Iraqi Kurdish Mother and Son Reunited After Two Decades

There were half a dozen families who awaited the DNA findings of a young man who lately returned from Iran. They all wondered if this was their baby boy who was divided from them in 1988, after Saddam Hussein’s toxic chemical attack on the Iraqi . Very few survived, but somehow this young man managed to live.

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

It was projected that 5,600 people died as a result of the lethal gasses spread during the chemical attack. Little happiness has been found in the town to this time. The raid took place after Saddam tried to crush a Kurdish rebellion. Saddam's cousin known as “Chemical Alli” was to blame for the attack and has since been sentenced to death for this and a number of other crimes.

The mother Salih recalled that when the assault took place she was holding the baby Pour on her lap but 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 and her other five children as well but absolutely nothing helped. She watched all of her children perish in front of her before collapsing. The next thing she recollected 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 in a war with each other and all who survived the the Halabja incident were relocated to Tehran. The baby was placed in 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 return to find his biological kin.

He got in touch with Iranian authorities and discovered that six families had reported missing a boy near Pour’s age. About 41 children are still listed as missing from the Halabja chemical attack. Luckily though one survived and is strong and well. 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 2 decades. Life can only get better for this small family.

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