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Article: Why the Kurds, the ultimate victims, have finally snapped; Jason Beattie on the build-up to those outbursts of outrage.(National)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- February 18, 1999
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A wave of outrage has swept across Western Europe which is shocking both for its unexpectedness and its intensity. The Kurdish people, probably the most unfortunate race in the modern world, have finally snapped.
Frustrated and dispossessed, the final straw was the arrest of the Kurdish freedom fighter Abdullah "Apo" Ocalan by the Turkish authorities.
Almost every capital city in Europe, from Stockholm to Athens, is in the grip of violent protests by the Kurdish refugees.
In London a schoolgirl set herself alight outside the Greek Embassy, there ...