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30,000 Returning Kurds Replace 100,000 Arab Colonists in Kurdistan
An international body that monitors displaced people says about 100,000 Arabs have been forced from their homes by returning Kurds in northern Iraq. The Global IDP Project estimates that about 30,000 Kurds who were evicted under Saddam Hussein have gone back to their home towns and villages. .... The report says political tensions are particularly high in the oil-rich area round Kirkuk. Arab and Turkmen residents are afraid the Kurdish authorities are trying to lure more Kurds to resettle there, so that the non-Kurdish population will be outnumbered in any future referendum on the status of the city.Posted by: Mike Sylwester 2004-02-21 |
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