Article: IRAN: THE WAR'S NOT OVER.(conflict with Iraq)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)

Some 20,000 Iranian civilians remain held in Iraq's Ramadiyah Camp, according to the office of Kermanshah Province's governor-general, whose comments were reported in "Jomhuri-yi Islami" on 16 January. An unnamed official in that office explained that "shortly after the start of the Iraqi-imposed war against the Islamic Republic of Iran, these people were rounded up along our country's western and southern border regions and taken to Iraq." All the Iraqi prisoners of war have been released, according to the 9 December "Javan," while over 2,000 Iranians are being held in Iraq. Prisoners of war are the most intractable issue in Iran- Iraq relations. Each country claims to ...

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