The World - News from April 27, 1988
U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar said that U.N. teams sent to Iran and Iraq have found evidence of chemical warfare in both countries “in an even more intensive scale than before.” Perez de Cuellar said more evidence was found in Iran than in Iraq, but he declined to identify the country that used the chemical weapons. Iran has accused Iraq of using mustard and nerve gas March 17-19 against Halabja, an Iraqi town in Kurdistan occupied by Iranian troops. Iran said 5,000 Iraqi Kurds died.
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