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I'm in the Kurdish town of Halabja in Northern Iraq.

This town has come to symbolize Saddam Hussein's cruelty towards the Kurds.

I'm looking at a monument that was built to commemorate

the thousands of people killed in his chemical gas attack.

But two years ago, the monument was burned by young people from Halabja.

They were angry, angry at their own Kurdish government.

There were sons of martyrs.

They were going into the monument and they were hacking their father's name from the wall.

The young people were saying, why the dead should be respected more than the people who are alive.

Rabad Nazad is a local journalist.

He told me people in Halabja had become infuriated by the government,

who seemed slow to provide basic services,

but very quick to exploit the town as a symbol of Kurdish suffering.

16th of March, the anniversary of Saddam's gas attack is the most painful day in the town's calendar.

On that day in 2006, the anger boiled over.

It was a very painful day.

Rabad said that as the protesters walked through the town,

people came out of their homes to join them.

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