Japanese director focuses on Kermanshah region struck by Iraqi chemical attack

Kishi will be including his film of this area in a documentary series that he is currently making on the effects of chemical attacks.

“I am carrying out this work in order to show the destructive effects of the bombardment of the region by chemical weapons,” Kishi told the Persian service of the IRNA on Thursday.

“The documentary is being produced by a well-known Japanese institute and it will be the first Japanese production on chemical bombardments,” he added.

In July 1988, the village of Zardeh in the Kurdish region of Eslamabad-e Gharb in Kermanshah Province was hit by Iraqi chemical bombs, which killed 275 people and injured 1,146. Many people in the region are still suffering from the effects of the attack.

Likewise, in a previous attack, another Iranian Kurdish region, Sardasht, in West Azarbaijan was also struck by Iraqi chemical weapons on June 28, 1987. This was the first time that Saddam Hussein had used such warfare against Iranian civilians.

A quarter of Sardasht’s 20,000 population of that time are still suffering from severe illnesses as result of the attack.

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