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1631-HO-1462938 contaminated with chemicals, the group was so hungry that they had no choice but to eat it. B nightfall, approximately 10 people had gathered around Most of the homes in the village had been burned by the Iraqi troops, but they managed to find house at the edge of the village to spend the night. [__| note that although approximately 2,000 people lived in alisan, only 10 or 12 people had returned after the attack. On April 21, tse7,[__Jintendea to travel with his brother to lawa to locate medical supplies. At approximately 9:00 anf Twas still in Balisan_when two Iraqi Gazelle helicopters flew over the village.[L Jrecognize hem by sight and knew they carried 20mm machine guns. peor heard machine gun bursts ag the helicopters traveled northwest from Balisan. He and another raced to the sound of the guns and found seven people, five males and two females, shot dead on the government road northwest of Balisan. One of the woman had been carrying an infant who had not been shot and was trying to breast feed from its dead mother. estimated that the total populations of all of the villages in the Balisan Valley ranged from 400 to 2,000 (Balisan). Most were located within a mile or two of each other. Although the Iragi military attacked and burned all 42 villages in the valley, the Iraqi government forces seemed to concentrate on the villages of Balisan, Sheikh Wasan, Tutemeh, Balanukawa, Kanibard, Berawa, and Khati which are all located within three miles of each other. The chemical attacks were most concentrated on Balisan and Sheikh Wasan, but other villages not directly attacked were indirectly affected by the gas as well. It appeared that Berawa, Khatti, and Kanibard were attacked by artillery or airplanes employing conventional weapons only. interview, January 27, 2005]. The following declassified satellite imagery, illustrating Sheikh Wasan on May 27, 1987, depicts the impact 20