Chemical bombing of Sardasht

Culture of origin: Kurdish · Historical

Holiday sources: Iran · Kurdish

On 28 June 1987, in the Iran–Iraq War, Iraqi aircraft dropped mustard gas bombs on four residential areas of Sardasht, a Kurdish town in West Azerbaijan. The attack killed 130 people, 109 of them civilians and 39 of those children, and injured 8,000; in 2006 a quarter of the town's 20,000 people were still seriously ill from it. In 2004 a Sardasht street was named Hiroshima, and Hiroshima's mayor sends a message every 28 June.