http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21814734

I chose this BBC article, "Iraqi Kurds Mark 25 Years Since Halabja Gas Attack," because it ties into Turtles Can Fly, the film I watched for my current essay that tells the story of Kurdish refugee orphans on the eve of the war in Iraq. The article calls the attack on Halabja in 1988 "the most notorious act of chemical warfare in modern times," but it's an event we rarely hear mentioned.
The article says that, "The attack on Halabja was part of a wider campaign known as "Anfal" in which tens of thousands of Iraqis were killed by their own government." This is reminiscent of what's been going on in Syria.
The attack killed mostly women and children and that seems to be the horror of the violence that goes on in Israel/Palestine or Syria or other Middle Eastern places--that the innocent are so often not just "in the way," but actually targeted. Turtles Can Fly really touches on the effects this has on the people in the Middle East just trying to live their lives in the midst of uncertainty and brutality.