Kurdish people in Iraq underwent a blatant segregation, a brutal ethnic cleansing and mass murder and were suppressed in their own land under Saddam’s (Baath party) regime, claiming Arab socialism and nationalism. Moreover, almost 800 Kurdish villages were fired, and almost 40,000 people in these villages were killed, and almost 2 million Kurds were driven by Saddam to Iran, Syria, and Turkey after the Gulf War (Prince, 1993). Actually, a famous Kurdish proverb summarizes the situation, “the Kurds have no friends but the mountains.” Kurds have not been a majority group in any country so far. In short, Kurds were “pariah” minority under Saddam’s regime (Rubin, 2003).
Posted by: mehmetsoyer | November 23, 2007
Kurd Citizens in Iraq During Saddam Regime
Posted in Kurdish Issue | Tags: Kurdish People, Kurds, Northern Iraq


