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Article: Kurdistan--what are the prospects? After a century of betrayal and bloody repression the Kurdish people wait to see whether history will repeat itself. (against the current).(Brief Article)
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- Arena Magazine
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- June 1, 2002
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Despite the interruption of the war in the Middle East, it appears that George W. Bush is determined to complete Pop's unfinished business with Saddam Hussein. Attention has once again turned to the Kurds, and their long struggle for state-hood. Will they get their own state, or will they once again be betrayed and slaughtered as they were after both World War I, and the Gulf War in 1991?
Judging by the past, one would not hold out great hopes. After US President Woodrow Wilson came out in support of self-determination of nations at the end of World War I, the Kurds were promised their own state in 1920 with the Treaty of Sevres. However, within three years ...