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For Kurds-Hope and Hard Times
Hiltermann, Joost R. | June 21, 1993 issue

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Twenty months after Iraqi troops pulled out of Kurdish territory and just over a year after the unprecedented parliamentary and leadership elections of May 1992, Saddam Hussein, President of Iraq casts a pall over Kurdish aspirations. The Kurds have operated in a vacuum of sovereignty brought about by the Iraqi withdrawal of October 1991, and enjoy the protection of the allies who subdued Iraq in the Gulf War and then drew a line across the map, north of which Iraqi planes still may not fly. The allied air umbrella created the physical and political space for the Kurds to rebuild their villages and infrastructure, to which the regime had laid waste in the 1980s, and to assert their right to self-determination.

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POLITICS, Practical; HUSSEIN, Saddam, 1937-2006; PRESIDENTS; KURDS; SOVEREIGNTY; IRAQ
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