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E 1631-HQl462938 elderly women identified as SELMA MUSTAFA HAMID and ADILA SHINKO, and a nineyear old girl identified as HOWSAT ABDULLAH KHIDR. The taken by presumed 70 to 75. Balisan, number of adult men and teenage boys two busloads from the Amn jail and to be executed later is estimated at Twenty two are believed to be from 50 from Sheikh Wasan, and four from nearby villages. Among those that disappeared were MOHAMMAD IBRAHIM KHIDR, age 18, and MOHSEN IBRAHIM KHIDR, age 12, the two youngest sons of the Mullah of Balisan. Allowing for some overlap, the Middle East Watch calculated that at least 225 and perhaps as many as 400 civilians from the Balisan Valley died as a result of the April 16, 1987 Iraqi Air Force's chemical strike on their villages. [;;::::::::::::::] hereinafter[:::::] also witnessed the April 16, 87, attack on Balisan. According t§[::::::g]the Iraqi military attacked the villages of Sheikh asan an Balisan during the evening hours of April 16, 1987. The aerial attack was the first night attack conducted by the Iraqi military against the Kurds. [:::::]believed the Iraqi military used chemical weapons against the villages at night because the highest concentration of villagers would be in their homes and the villages at night; the men who remained in the villages were the toughest in the valley; and it gave the Iraqi military the the time of the attack, estimated there were 200 to 300 opportunity to attack i¬i:i?;j of the Peshmega front lines. At civilians and Peshmergas in alisan and approximately 400 in Sheikh Wasan.. On April 16, 1987,g::::::]who lived in Balisan, w ' the village of Tutma, locate within the Balisan Valley. [:if:if] saw Iraqi aircraft over the villages of Balisan and Sheikh Wasan. While over the villages, the aircraft conducted dive runs but did not hear any explosions. Approximately an hour later, heard the sound of helicopters, followed by dull explosions, and he saw large, high flames coming from the had been a chemical attack villages and knew that it later learned through the earlier from Kirkuk. The helicopters were involved PUK that the helicopters had taken off PUK has estimated that approximately 36 in the attack. [:::::]immediately began walking to Balisan because his 18 196 b7C