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Article: Forgotten people: the world and the Kurds. (persecution of Kurds in Iran and Iraq after the cease-fire)
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- The Nation
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- August 21, 1989
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We're living through hard times," a Kurdish father tells his son in Yol, KurdishTurkish director Yilmaz Guney's last film, written in prison in Turkey before his death in exile in 1985: "We can't even claim our dead." Indeed -and truer today. Two reports released this year, one by Amnesty International and the other by Physicians for Human Rights, document that the persecution of the Kurdish people of Iran and Iraq by their own governments is steadily worsening in the aftermath of the war.
The war to a certain degree was encouraged by the industrial countries - forty nations supplied arms, ten of those to both sides [see Mansour Farhang, "An Unending War ...