Please join us for a documentary screening of "A Forgotten Crime" (52 min) on Iraqi chemical weapons use against Iran during the Iran-Iraq war. The screening will be followed by a Q&A session with co-directors Elli Safari and Remmelt Lukkien.
Synopsis:
During the Iran-Iraq war (1980-88) Saddam Hussein bombarded Iranian military and civilians with chemical weapons, while the world looked on without interfering and even assisted Saddam in this chemical warfare. At the same time the Security Council of the United Nations was blocked
from condemning Iraq for invading Iran and for using weapons of mass destruction.
In "A Forgotten Crime" Iranian political and military leaders of the period, medical experts, and contaminated people relate for the first time in full how this drama was experienced in politically isolated Iran. Step-by-step the film irresistibly drags the viewer deeper into the ever increasing humanitarian, military, and political drama of this chemical warfare, which lasted for 5 years and has determined Iran's position in the international political arena until this very day, as evident in the ongoing nuclear negotiations.
