Kurds teetering on brink of abyss

Article Abstract:

The UN provides monthly rations to Kurds in Kurdistan subject to President Saddam Hussein's conditions. Sulaymaniyah has 1.3 million people but only food for 1/4 of them. Most people exist on one round of bread with a drink of water or tea. Kerosene is scarce and expensive, yet temperatures are -20 degrees celsius. There are no drugs or antibiotics and hardly any oxygen or shelter. People live in rubble since soldiers destroyed their villages after the Iran-Iraq war.

Equipment and supplies, International relations, United Nations, Iraqi foreign relations, International relief

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Silent holocaust of the Kurds

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More than 100,000 Kurdish people reportedly disappeared in Iraq during 1988. During three phases of an alleged campaign, the army circled villages and then bombarded them with artillery fire and sometimes poison gas. Survivors were said to then be trucked to transfer points where the men disappeared and women and children shot in mass graves. Reporters found tapes that incriminate Iraqi Defence Minister, Ali Hassan Majid.

Crimes against, Military policy, Genocide

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The Holocaust: why Auntie stayed mum

Article Abstract:

The BBC first broadcast details of Nazi death camps in Apr 1945, but had in fact known about the destruction of the European Jews since 1943. Government policy was to keep this a secret, as it was felt that Jewish sources were unreliable and that German atrocities were being exaggerated. It has also been revealed that the BBC was unwilling to broadcast on behalf of the Jews.

British Broadcasting Corp., History, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Media coverage

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