Victims of the 1988 chemical gas attack in Iraqi Kurdistan are taking legal action against foreign firms. Foreign companies are expected to go to trial over selling chemical weapons to the ousted Iraqi Baath regime, Halabja’s Chemical Victims Society announced.



Lawyers in Kurdistan along with American lawyers are collecting signature in a petition, asking for companies’s trial that sold chemical weapons to Saddam regime.



“More than 1000 people registered a law suit against foreign companies for supplying chemical weapon to former regime, asking for these firms’ trial. More cases are expected as the organization extended the event for one more month” Halabja’s Chemical Victims Society reported.



The society reaffirmed that the trial stemmed from a lawsuit filed by his society and the American lawyers. They also announced that the case will be presented in a United States court.



Saddam Hussein bought tons of chemical weapons from European firms for his assault on Kurdistan’s Halabja town.