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Article: Iraq's Kurds embrace new charter; The constitution, to be voted on tomorrow, enshrines for the first time Kurdish rights into Iraqi law.(WORLD)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- October 14, 2005
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Byline: Scott Peterson Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
ERBIL, NORTHERN IRAQ -- For Kurds who are likely to vote overwhelmingly for Iraq's new constitution tomorrow, one well-plastered poster sums up the emotion.
"The new constitution," it reads over a photograph that taps deeply into every Kurdish heart, "is the end of genocide and repression."
The picture shows an elderly Kurdish woman, along with 1 million fellow Kurds, fleeing Iraq into the mountains as Saddam Hussein crushed an uprising in 1991. Kurds expected revenge, and knew how it tasted. In 1988, Iraqi forces had gassed the town of Halabja, and before that destroyed ...