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| Kurds Oust Arabs From Homes in Kirkuk |
| 2003-04-17 |
| EFL - Can't believe I posted this before Murat. Almost wanted to title it all in caps in his absence! Years after they were dispossessed under Saddam Hussein, Kurds are taking what they say is rightfully theirs, evicting Iraqi Arabs and seizing their homes in northern Iraq."We're homeless," complained Sadi Qader Muhammad, whose family was ordered out of their four-room house by a group of Kurds in this largely Kurdish city. "For years, we've worked hard from morning until night, and getting kicked out of our home is the fruit of our labor." The new Kurdish occupants took over the house in the days of confusion immediately after the April 10 collapse of Baghdad's authority in Kirkuk. They claim the land was theirs before Saddam evicted them in the 1980s. |
| Posted by:Yosemite Sam |
| #3 You've got it backwards liberalhawk, Kurds living on Kurdish land re-taken from invading Arabs are the REAL "settlers"! I'm sure the Arab Street is seething. (As always.) |
| Posted by: Scooter McGruder 2003-04-17 14:30:15 |
| #2 can we start calling these arab villages on Kurd land "illegal settlements"? |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2003-04-17 13:53:29 |
| #1 The anti-Arabization starts. Most people aren't aware of the Arabization of the kurdish areas, when arabs were given homes and cash, taken from kurds, to extend Saddams' "people of loyalty" into the kurdish area. Murat would've talked about the horrors! of kurds getting back what was theirs to begin with. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-04-17 12:46:27 |