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Article: Kurds in Iraq welcome democracy.
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- The Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX)
- Article date:
- October 30, 2005
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Byline: Tod Robberson
SULAYMANIA, Iraq _ Washington's plan was to use democracy as the glue to unify Iraq's disparate ethnic and religious groups, but in practice, Iraqis say that democracy could actually be splitting their nation apart.
Violence spiked again last week amid accusations of fraud by Sunni Muslim politicians angry over voters' approval of a new constitution in an Oct. 15 referendum. The constitution grants broad new federal powers to the Shiite Muslim south and Kurdish north, and both regions appear to be using their new powers to distance themselves further from the central government in Baghdad.
Ethnic Kurds say they view the ...