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Kurds Exercise Right to Return to Lands Stolen By Arabs
From Radio Free Europe / Radio LibertyThe Kurdish weekly Hawlati reported on 4 August that 14,000 Kurdish families have returned to the city of Kirkuk and the surrounding areas since the fall of the Hussein regime in April 2003. The weekly also reported that some 3,400 Arab families have left the city and returned to southern Iraq. The governor's deputy for settlement and compensation matters, Hasib Rozhbayani, told Hawlati that 3,332 Arab families left Kirkuk, many of them selling their houses. He claimed that many Kurds displaced from the city under the Hussein regime's Arabization program have been able to reclaim their land in the city. Posted by: Mike Sylwester 2004-08-06 |
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