KRG UK participates in Qaladze bombardment commemoration
News : 4/25/2025
London, United
Kingdom, www.uk.gov.krd. A delegation
representing the Kurdistan Regional Government High Representative to the UK,
including Khasro Ajgayi Director of Political and Media Affairs and Hawre Wahid
Director of the Trade and Investment participated in the 51st anniversary of
the bombardment of the city of Qaladzeh and the university of Sulaymaniyah
which was temporarily based there, which killed over 350 innocent civilians and
students.
The commemoration event
was organised by Qaladze Centre at Holland Park in central London, where a number
of the Kurdistan diaspora and friends of Kurdistan convened to remember the
victims of this crime against the humanity. Families of the victims and other
attendees delivered speeches empathising the brutality of the former Iraqi
regime in its treatment to the Kurdish nation, including the bombardment of
Qaladze city.
Participants reiterated
the importance of remembering these atrocities, to influence the international
community to preventing future such crimes, and to gather more support to the Kurdish
question.
The event
concluded with the lighting of 51 candles and the placement of flowers at the
Halabja and Anfal memorial tree.
London
24th April 2025