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APRIL 22, 1998
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Iraq, the'91 Revolt Is Long Over
By Doug Struck ' hi t..... them down fore, even soap wouldn't clean US.!mitsbirthandwasshownnomercyat
copter guns ps 0 "IVW And we don't have to buy water to'ts death
Washing/on Post Service in 1991 and they are resigned to the drink W fui " I Wh . 'd t . .ted Kar
' . f h ira . .d t "There . e are very grate . en a correspon en VISI -
KARBALA, Iraq - The walls are relgno, t e ql pr~~1 e?,' an' There are other longstanding prob-, balaafter the revolt failed in 1991, the
whitewashed now, erased of the ~e no signs1!Jp~osl~~nd '~~~~e's 'lems. Electrical power ~ the south is:pools of caked blood underneath
bloody hand~ts that told of death. dlpl«;>matS~I m ag a. 't" ,still weak and unreliable, running at. nooses in the Al Abbas shrine marked
The hypnotic blue til~s of the Alno sl~n o~ no symp~ ~ 'Com- only about 40 percent «;>fneeds, and a where 73 government an4 party
Abbàsmosquearere{>arred,andPres- .W,lth g reason.. rt 'd recent UN. report said. that unless members werehangedby the revoluident
SaddàmHussem gave the gold ~sslon on'thHuIr man Rlg!Its . repo ~y 'billions are invested in electrical gen- tionaries. Rooms that stank of death
to regild the shrine, pummeled when thiS month e aql ,r~glffie ~ecen eration no widespread improvements and carried the signature of bloody
hi,Stanks put down a revolt after the,e~~uted 1,500 poh~c.al p~so~:si, will be' made, to water .purifi~ation, ,handprints suggested the brutal re-
GulfWar.', glvm~ ,~redence t!J ~lI:;s ~ t~ sewage treatmentor reduction m wa- sponse of Mr. Saddam's regrouped
Seven years after a fight-to-the- opposltl?n groups m n on d a ed ~ terborne disease. 'R~publican Guard., ' ,
death uprising in southern Ir~q, the ~,addam.s ~~n?usak h~ or.:fIs by Medical care remains a problem, Now, people here rewrite the past.
Iraqi gov~~ent has rebuIlt, the cleansmg 0 ove owmg J The damage aU was ~on~ by .the
flattened bùIldmgs of the rebels last " Americans and other Zlomst alhes,
stand and.tightened its stranglehold The'lram"government has rebuilt the flattened ,people in Karbala and Najafwill.sugon
the regl,On.. "1- " igh ed. 'gest. If pressed about what they call
Here and ,in other cities of the buildings of th~ reb~ls' last stand and t ten Its ,the "~hase of the. Traitors," they
,south; ,the zeal that fed a revolt I h' . assert It was a conflIct perpetrated by
against Mr. Saddam's regime after strangleho d on t e region. Iranians who came across the bor-
!pe allied bombs stopped has been , der.
reJ?lac~ ~y th~ ~eary .stru~le of shooting and electrocu!~on. "Sl;ld- as it is throughout Iraq. Medicine is The "raqi woman in the bl~ck
da~ly life m an lffipovenshed; swel- dam is for keeRs .here, an .~Ian scarce, hospitals lack staff and basic"chador m Karbala knows otherwise.
,tenng land. , ' . . diplomat said. ' With every CnslS heequipment. Mortality is high. The "My husband was taken on 19.of
,Onlyamuseumofthemacab~e~~ consolidatespower.Hehasbecomea'weak perish. The tiny baby in the'Mar~h, 1991.. ~au~e