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sands of ~qis "are still being executed small town the Iraqis gassed in1988. It¥ in
without trial, and tens of thousands rou- the Wheezing cheSts of women seeingout
tine1y tortured. Millions ],ivein a state of the remainder of their miserable lives and
numbfear. the.~ eyes ofmen who cannot forget the
As I stood this week watching the dispos- ,:sightôfblood dn'bbling from the mouths of
sessed coming across the border into Kur-, dymg children. Halabja has rates of
distan, I spoke toKak Adil, the officer in leukemia, œnœrand congeiütal conditions
charge of the Kurdish mail. "They all have manytimes the Iraqi norm. .
stories ofbea1ings and biutal killings at the One doctor wOo works inthe town told
,handsofSaddam," he, said. "Only his ser- me: -A woman came to see me two months '
va,nl:S live without fear." I have met grown ago. She had given birth toa little girl who
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trè& fÙptde,
dpetne
queIque& ,
]cura.
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IUlU4l'ont
prinnl&.»
StfaAhmef;
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combattant
kurde
delaguem
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men who say they pray evelY.day for the
dictator's death. action against the regime responsible for
The~istlt~!oralltoseein~Pia,a suchoutrages? " ,
AssosJHàrdi, the editor of the liberal
newSpaper Hawolati inSvkJimania, was
more mathematical in his appraisal. He
said: "How manypeople do you think will
die if America attacks" Saddam? It will
probably be less than the number of people
he kills ina single month." .
As the dn1ms ofwar beat ever louder, I am
still unsure of the strategicwisdom ofopen- '
ing a second front in the war against terror.
But of the moral rectitude of such a course,
had no feet."Who could argue with taking there can be no doubt.
~~2'.
The Daily Telegraph
FEVRIER 20 0 3
. Attente résignée au Kurdistan d'Ira.k ...
Sûr6 del'immi~
C1elaguerre, le6 Kurde6re6tent~bL~nt6. '
hlak envoyédpéclal ,.' "' " ',', IUlrverslalurqweoul1ran.Lesrmages
lroiscamionsetunedemi-douzainedeminibus" ..,rOP3'ations' de l'exode de centaines de milliers de
, ,;,'déglingués font la queue sur le pont qui enjam- ur es Kurdes avaient bouleversé les opinions
"be le Zaab aux eaux boueuses gonflées par Ie's'. occidentales et sous leur pression, une zopluies.
ny a encore trois mois, des centaines de
ne autonome kurdè'échappantauoontrôvéhicules
passaient chaque jour au-dessus de la riviè-
le du régime avait alors été instituée par la
re qui sépat'e, à une vingtaine de kilomètres au sud communauté internationale. Mais les
d'Erbil, la zone autonome kurde des territoires sous villes de Kirkouk el Mossoul, avec leurs
lë èontrôle du régime de Saddam Hussein. «La police 'riches réserves pétrolières, sont restées
irakienne interdit désormais aux Arabes devenir de ce sous le contrôle de Bagdad. ,
côté,seuls les Kurdes qui vivent enœre là-bas ont ledroit Explosion de mines. Cette fois, ce sera
de venir sans apporter aucune marchandise et surtout différent et ilsen sont certains.