EDIT CONTAINS 4:3 MATERIAL<br/> <br />Kurdish people in Iraq Saturday remembered the some 5,000 people killed 25 years ago during an attack on one of their villages.<br/> <br />Family members held pictures of loved ones during a ceremony in Halabja- the village in north-eastern Iraq where the massacre took place.<br/> <br />On March 16, 1988, then ruler Saddam Hussein used an arson of chemical weapons to kill nearly 5,000 people in the country's northeast Kurdish region.<br/> <br />25 years later, the memories are still fresh.<br/> <br />I lost 40 members of my family, this man said, recounting the sight of bodies scattered across the ground.<br/> <br />Halabja, which is near Iraq's border with Iran, became synonymous with atrocities against civilians after the attack.<br/> <br />Iraqi Kurds have nicknamed Halabja the "town of martyrs".
