KURDISTAN
IRAKIEN |
| Les
Kurdes irakiens représentent 20% des 20 millions de
Kurdes vivant aussi en Turquie, en Iran et en Syrie. En 1988,
plus de 120 000 d'entre eux ont fui vers la Turquie les bombardements
chimiques de Saddam Hussein. Trois ans plus tard, dès la fin de la guerre du Golfe, plus de 2 millions de Kurdes fuient la répression irakienne, poussant les alliés occidentaux à instaurer une zone d'exclusion aérienne et une forme d'autonomie. Victimes de Saddam et de l'embargo, ses habitants émigrent en masse. |
PRESSIONS
REGIONALES |
| Besides
a change of the iraki regime, the PUK hopes to recover a part
of the oil of Kirkouk at about, 40 kilometers from the front
line of Chamchamal. The Iranian band Syrians neighbors have
a lot to lose with an american intervention and put the Kurdistan
under pressure. They make the crossing of their frontiers harder
and harder every day in the zones controled by PUK. Souleymanie is accusing Teheran the official godfather of PUK, to play a double game in supporting the attacks against the peshmergas by 4000 "guerilleros" of the PUK and the islamist extremist Ansar-Al-Islam refuge in the mountains beside Iran. The peshmergas of PUK threaten in two fronts, are not able to mobilize themselves only against Iraki forces. The goal of Teheran and Syria is to maintain an instability in the Irakian Kurdistan in order to limit the potential power of a pro-us government in Bagdad. Shared between the anxiety facing the prospect of a new war synonymous of pain and the hope of a federal Irak where they would have their place at last. The 3 millions 600 000 Kurds of Irak are waiting for Washington to decide the time when the arms will thunder. |
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