Category:Omer Khawar

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<nowiki>Omer Khawar; عمر الخاور; عمر خاور; عومەری خاوەر; a Kurdish civilian victim of Halabja chemical attack depicted with his infant in an iconic photograph; قربانی حمله شیمیایی حلبچه در عکسی مشهور; عمر خاور</nowiki>
Omer Khawar 
a Kurdish civilian victim of Halabja chemical attack depicted with his infant in an iconic photograph
Photograph by Ahmad Nateghi
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Date of birth1934
Date of death16 March 1988 (Halabja chemical attack)
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English: Omer Khawar (
عومەری خاوەر
) was a Kurdish man from w:Halabja and a victim of w:Halabja chemical attack, ordered by the Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. The photographs taken by Iranian photographers, depicting him holding his newborn in his arms tight while lying motionless on the ground became iconic and the tragic representation of the event.

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