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Article: Leader warns Kurds must be allowed to re-establish majority in Kirkuk, Iraq.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- December 10, 2004
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By Kirsten Scharnberg, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Dec. 10--IRBIL, Iraq -- The head of the Kurdish Democratic Party, long one of the staunchest advocates for going forward with Iraq's January elections, said Thursday that he would be forced to reconsider his position if Kurds were not allowed to re-establish their ethnic majority in the strategic city of Kirkuk.
The Kurds, an estimated 4 million people, would be the second of the countries' three major ethnic groups to raise objections to the elections. Minority Sunni Muslims already have threatened a boycott, arguing that continued violence in key Sunni cities like ...