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04/05/2006:
"Hussein Charged With Genocide in 50,000 Kurdish Deaths"
BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 4 — The Iraqi court trying Saddam Hussein announced Tuesday that it had charged him with genocide, saying he sought to annihilate the Kurdish people in 1988, when the military killed at least 50,000 Kurdish civilians and destroyed 2,000 villages.nytimes.com
Not that this bothered us back then, when we were friends.
Tehran faces growing Kurdish opposition
MOUNT QANDIL, Iraq -- A little-known organization based in the mountains of Iraq's Kurdish north is emerging as a serious threat to the Iranian government, staging cross-border attacks and claiming tens of thousands of supporters among Iran's 4 million Kurds.
Kurdish protests toll rises to 15 after bus blaze
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Hundreds of Kurds clashed with police in southeast Turkey on Monday and in Istanbul three people were killed as they fled a bus set ablaze by protesters, bringing the death toll in violence over the past week to 15.
The latest violence added to a week of unrest triggered by the funerals of 14 rebels from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) who were killed in clashes with security forces.
It marked some of Turkey's worst civil unrest since the PKK took up arms against the state in 1984 in an insurgency which has killed more than 30,000 people, and fueled fears of an escalation of the conflict.
the Kurds are being groomed as a US secret weapon.
