Halhal

For the village in Eritrea, see Halhal, Eritrea. For the villages in Iran, see Halhal, Iran.
Halhal
Village
Country Yemen
Governorate San‘a’
Time zone Yemen Standard Time (UTC+3)

Halhal is a village in western-central Yemen. It is located in the San‘a’ Governorate. During the North Yemen Civil War, Halhal supported the Royalists and the former monarch, the Imam Muhammad al-Badr. On December 27, 1966, troops from Egypt, supporting the Yemen Arab Republic, used chemical warfare against the inhabitants [1]

References

  1. Michael Brecher, Jonathan Wilkenfeld, A Study of Crisis (University of Michigan Press, 1997) p328

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