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Un ancien dirigeant d'un parti pro-kurde dissous tué par des soldats
ANKARA, 16 juil (AFP) - L'ancien vice-président du Parti pro-kurde du
travail du peuple (HEP), dissous en 1993 pour "séparatisme", Ibrahim
Incedursun, a été tué dans un affrontement entre forces de sécurité turques
et un groupe de rebelles kurdes qu'il dirigait, dans la nuit de 10 à 11
juillet, rapportent samedi deux quotidiens turcs.
Un groupe de 18 rebelles du Parti des travailleurs du Kurdistan (PKK,
séparatiste), dirigé par Ibrahim Incedursun, ont été encerclés par l'armée
dans la région de Kulp dans la province de Diyarbakir, chef-lieu du sud-est
anatolien à majorité kurde, selon les quotidiens Cumhuriyet (centre-gauche)
et Hurriyet (populaire).
Les maquisards kurdes et Ibrahim Incedursun ont été abattus lors du
combat qui a duré jusqu'à la matinée du 11 juillet, selOn les mêmes sources.
Par ailleurs, un groupe de 200 maquisards du PKK, dont l'un des
principaux chefs de l'aile militaire du PKK, Semdin Sakik, sont encerclés
par l'armée dans la région de Kagizman, près de Kars (est), à la frontière
de l'Arménie), toujours selon les mêmes sources.
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AFP /J00245/161118 JUL 94
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INTERNATIONAL BEKAW TRmUNE, MONDAY, JULY 18,1994 .
.No Reprieve forSaddam
Again the United Nations is consider- it.is now safe to al~owIraq tresume the
ing whether to maintain economic sanc- Oll ~xports. thatwill pernu~ It to resume
tions on Iraq. Again the answer should be ~u~g theIr goods and semees (and paythat
it must. The full range of good pur- mg ItS huge debts to them).
poses that the sanctions serve has still to Nonetheless, Saddam remains the crube
completed. Saddam Hussein has not el pers~utor of two group~. of ~raqis.
yet won an international reprieve. Kurds In. the north ~d Shii~es In the
There is a parti~ular feason ~hy each sou~h, which are under mternatIonal pronew
sanctions reVIew at the UhIted Na- tectIon. Nor has he met UN demands to
tions is a little tighter than the last. The abandnIraq's claim to K~wait an~ to
UN arms inspectors are near to complet- recogmze the border the Uruted Nations
ing their assignment to seek and. destroy drew between.t~em ..Nor.h8:8he account-
Iraq's special weapons and to mstall a ed fOr KUWaItISstill mISSIng from the
monitoring system that will keep work on war. Nor for that matt~r has he.c~osen to
banned weapons and missiles from being ~e the reas~nable opt!on the Urute~ Na- .
renewed. Continuing surveillance and an tions has wntte~ for him to sell desIgna~improved
system of poli~ing ind':l~trial ed ~oun~s of 011for th.esake of humaruimports
should help contaIn the mIlitary tanan r~lief. He contInues to sponsor
value of whatever arms programs Iraq provocatIv~ assaults on ~ personnel.
may have hidden from the inspectors. '!he Uruted States and ItS G~lf W~
Saddam runs a brutal regime at home, allies have so far been frustrated m theIr
but he does not pose a regional or strate- hopes that .the embargo would help
gié threat to his neighbors anymore. squeeze the dictator out of power. But the
It was of course to win relief from embargo has enabled them to head off a.
sanction~ tha~ Saddam Hussein opened revival of Iraqi bullying and expansin.
up to thearms inspectors in the first This is more than enough of a policy
place. His defanging is now also being benefit to justify keeping the pressure
.cited by legions of international business- on Saddam Hussein.
men, champing at the bit, as reason why - THE WASHINGTON POST. .